File storage

Files are the basics of computing. If you are familiar with UNIX/Linux environments, you already know that, everything is a file in the Unix world. But don't get confused with that as every operating system has its own way of dealing with hardware resources. In this case we are not worried about how the operating system deals with hardware resources, but we are talking about the important documents that the users store as part of their day-to-day business.

These files can be:

  • Movie/conference recordings
  • Pictures
  • Excel sheets
  • Word documents

Even though they are simple-looking files in our computer, they can have significant business importance and should be dealt with in a careful fashion, when we think of storing these on the ...

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