Traditionally, booting an Ubuntu installation with the root filesystem on a degraded RAID drops the system into a busybox prompt in the initramfs.
This is a very conservative approach, allowing the system administrator to consciously recognize that the system has lost a RAID disk, and preventing the system from booting into an unprotected situation.
Apple's metadata filesystem - stores file metadata in seperate database, import for common and customized file metadata, sophisticated api and command line query
Earth allows you to find files across a large network of machines and track disk usage in real time. It consists of a daemon that indexes filesystems in real time and reports all the changes back to a central database. This can then be queried through a simple, yet powerful, web interface. Think of it like Spotlight or Beagle but operating system independent with a central database for multiple machines with a web application that allows novel ways of exploring your data.
Gmail Filesystem provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. Gmail Filesystem is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to commu
Score one for Linux developers. Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers on the Samba project, may have developed a workaround which will bypass a Microsoft patent on the ubiquitous FAT, VFAT and FAT32 file systems
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for federated file sharing and replicated r
S. Bloehdorn, O. Goerlitz, S. Schenk, and M. Voelkel. 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW'06), Special Track on Advanced Semantic Technologies, Graz, Austria, (September 2006)
S. Bloehdorn, O. Görlitz, S. Schenk, and M. Völkel. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW 06), Graz, Austria, September 6-8, 2006, (September 2006)
S. Bloehdorn, O. Görlitz, S. Schenk, and M. Völkel. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW 06), Graz, Austria, September 6-8, 2006, (September 2006)
S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, and S. Leung. Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, page 29--43. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2003)