Mount namespaces were the first namespace type added to Linux, appearing in 2002 in Linux 2.4.19. They isolate the list of mount points seen by the processes in a namespace. Or, to put things another ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as ...

Unification of filesystems is the concept of mounting several filesystems on a single mount point, with the resulting mount showing the logical combination of all the filesystems. Traditionally, when ...