So a couple people (drag, I think?) labeled XFS as particularly "robust" and fast and, presumably, awesome. OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we ...

Backporting fixes to stable kernels is an ongoing process that, in general, is handled by the stable maintainers or the developers of the fixes. However, due to some unhappiness in the XFS development ...

While historically a slow moving industry, the ATM industry is moving forward with a OS agnostic platform that aims to transform the industry. The platform, called XF4IoT, aims to provide benefits to ...

Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate for the Linux kernel's 7.3 series on September 13, 2026, calling it "another fairly large rc release" in his announcement to the kernel mailing list ...

Extensions for Financial Services dates back to the early 1990s as a way to establish a client-server architecture for peripheral devices on ATMs. In 1998, CEN (the European Committee for ...

Linux has a lot of filesystems, but two of them (ext4 and btrfs) tend to get most of the attention. In his 2012 linux.conf.au talk, XFS developer Dave Chinner served notice that he thinks more users ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.0 on April 12, 2026, bumping the major version number for the first time since the 6.0 launch in October 2022. The new kernel ships with autonomous XFS filesystem ...

The Fedora 22 Linux operating system was released last week, and it is our great pleasure to introduce you guys today to its Server edition, which brings some awesome new features and numerous ...

A split-second race inside the Linux kernel was all it took to turn a routine filesystem copy-on-write operation into a serious privilege escalation. Linux systems using the XFS filesystem suffer from ...