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2407 : Fixed a typo, sent in to ldp-submit ->0.31
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2009 : User inputs to file systems and FEM correction ->0.32
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1610 : Minor updates and release ->0.32a
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0511 : Fixed one typo and added link to scsidev development page ->0.32b
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1711 : Fixed typos and some links ->0.32c
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0312 : Another round of link checking, will this never end? ->0.32d
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1012 : Evidently not, more links updated -> 0.32e
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1012 : And again, more links updated -> 0.32f
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090101: Applied patch from Nakano-san -> 0.32g
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0901 : Added new link to INN optimising, fixed one link ->0.32h
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3006 : Added recovering disk failure, Win2000 RAID, iSCSI, corrections to mount point list ->0.32i
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<title>HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning
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<author>Stein Gjoen, <tt/sgjoen@nyx.net/
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<date>v0.31 , 24 July 2000
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<date>v0.32i, 30 June 2001
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<abstract>
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<nidx>disk</nidx>
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<nidx>partitions, disk (see disk)</nidx>
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this brand new release is codenamed the <bf/Daniella/ release. -->
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For unclear reasons this brand new release is codenamed
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<!-- the <bf/Sauchiehall/ release. -->
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the <bf/Taylor2/ release.
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the <bf/Taylor3/ release.
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New code names will appear as per industry standard guidelines
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to emphasize the state-of-the-art-ness of this document.
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-->
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The followup to FSSTND is called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
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and covers more than Linux alone. FHS versions 2.0 and 2.1 have been
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released but there are still a few issues to be dealt with and even
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and covers more than Linux alone. FHS versions 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 have been
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released but there are still a few issues to be dealt with. Many recent
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distributions are now aiming for FHS compliance.
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<!-- removed 010630
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and even
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longer before this new standard will have an impact on actual
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distributions. FHS is not yet used in any distributions but Debian
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has announced they will use it in Debian 2.1 which is their next
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distribution.
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has announced they will use it in Debian 2.1 which is the current
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distribution. Also SuSE is aiming for FHS compliance and no doubt more
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will come. -->
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It is also a good idea to read the Linux Installation guides thoroughly
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and if you are using a PC system, which I guess the majority still does,
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!news on</nidx>
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This is a maintenance release featuring minor but numerous updates
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and additions to file systems and also tools for mount tables.
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This release features a major restructuring and more additions
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<!-- This release features a major restructuring and more additions
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than I can list here especially on
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backup systems, hints and tips and even more on file system support.
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Also there is now a new appendix with a shell script that helps
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Also quite new is a number of new translations available.
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Now a Chinese and also an Italian translation are under way.
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-->
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On the development front people are concentrating their energy towards
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completing Linux 2.2 and until that is released there is not going to
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completing Linux 2.4 and until that is released there is not going to
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be much news on disk technology for Linux.
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<!-- Debian 2.1 is readying for release and as I use Debian for my test
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A European mirror of the
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<url url="http://home.sol.no/˜gjoen/stein/disk.html"
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<!-- <url url="http://home.sol.no/˜gjoen/stein/disk.html" -->
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<url url="http://home.online.no/˜ggjoeen/stein/disk.html"
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name="Multi Disk HOWTO">
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just went on line.
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@ -397,6 +418,9 @@ mbaehr (at) email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
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adc (at) postoffice.utas.edu.au
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pjm (at) bofh.asn.au
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jochen.berg (at) ac.com
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jpotts (at) us.ibm.com
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jarry (at) gmx.net
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LeBlanc (at) mcc.ac.uk
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</verb></tscreen>
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</itemize>
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ICP Vortex is gratefully acknowledges for sending in-depth information
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on their range of RAID controllers.
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Also DPT is acknowledged for sending me documentation on their controllers
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as well as permission to quote from the material. These quotes have been
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</itemize>
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More information on SCSI cabling and termination can be found at
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<url url="http://resource.simplenet.com/files/68_50_n.htm"
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name="other">
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<!-- <url url="http://resource.simplenet.com/files/68_50_n.htm"
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name="other"> --> various
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web pages around the net.
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<url url="http://spin.ch/˜tpo/bench/"
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name="this one">
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and also
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<url url="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Benchmarking-HOWTO.html"
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<!-- <url url="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Benchmarking-HOWTO.html" -->
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<url url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Benchmarking-HOWTO.html"
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name="The Benchmarking-HOWTO">.
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There are also official home pages for
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264 MB/s. The PCI transfer rate will in the future be increased from the
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current 33 MHz to 66 MHz, thereby increasing the limit to 528 MB/s.
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The ATA development is continuing and is increasing the performance
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with the new ATA/100 standard. Since most ATA drives are slower in
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sustained transfer from platter than this the performance increase
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will for most people be small.
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More interesting is the Serial ATA development, where the flat cable
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will be replaced with a high speed serial link. This makes cabling
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far simpler than today and also it solves the problem of cabling
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obstructing airflow over the drives.
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Another trend is for larger and larger drives. I hear it is possible
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to get 55 GB on a single drive though this is rather expensive.
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Currently the optimum storage for your money is about 6.4 GB but also
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to get 75 GB on a single drive though this is rather expensive.
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Currently the optimum storage for your money is about 30 GB but also
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this is continuously increasing. The introduction of DVD will in the
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near future have a big impact, with nearly 20 GB on a single disk you
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can have a complete copy of even major FTP sites from around the
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commercial 24x CD-ROMs were available... Currently you can get 40x and
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no doubt higher speeds are in the pipeline.
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A project to encapsulate SCSI over TCP/IP, called
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<url url="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-06.txt"
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name="iSCSI">
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has started, and one
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<url url="http://www.cs.uml.edu/~mbrown/iSCSI"
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name="Linux iSCSI implementation">
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has appeared.
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<sect1>Recommendations <label id="recommendations">
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!recommendations</nidx>
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<nidx>disk!FHS</nidx>
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Later it was decided to make a successor that should also support
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operating systems other than just Linux, called
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the <em/Filesystem Hierarchy Standard/ (FHS) at version 2.1 currently.
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the <em/Filesystem Hierarchy Standard/ (FHS) at version 2.2 currently.
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This standard is under continuous development and will
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soon be adopted by Linux distributions.
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reboots.
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Also remember to take into account the type of programs you use.
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Some programs that have large working sets, such as finite element
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modeling (FEM) have huge data structures loaded in RAM rather than
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Some programs that have large working sets, such as
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<!-- finite element method (FEM) -->
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image processing software
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have huge data structures loaded in RAM rather than
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working explicitly on disk files. Data and computing intensive
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programs like this will cause excessive swapping if you have less
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RAM than the requirements.
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<tt>/home</tt> partition. The Linux Quota subsystem is capable of
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limiting the number of blocks and the number of inode a single user
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ID can allocate on a per-filesystem basis. See the <url
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url="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/mini" name="Linux Quota mini-HOWTO"> by
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url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html" name="Linux Quota mini-HOWTO"> by
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Albert M.C. Tam <tt/bertie (at) scn.org/
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for details on setup.
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!ext3fs</nidx>
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This is the name for the upcoming successor to <tt/ext2fs/ due to enter
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development kernel in the near future. Many features will be added to
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stable kernel in the near future. Many features are added to
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<tt/ext2fs/ but to avoid confusion over the name after such a radical
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upgrade the name will be changed too. You may have heard of it already
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but source code is now in beta relsease . <!--not yet available. -->
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but source code is now in beta release . <!--not yet available. -->
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Patches are available at
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<url url="ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs"
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name="Linux.org">.
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name="Silicon Graphics Inc (sgi)">
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has started porting its mainframe grade file system to Linux.
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Source is not yet available as they are busily cleaning out
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legal encumberance but once that is done they will provide the
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legal encumbrance but once that is done they will provide the
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source code under GPL.
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More information is already available on the
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<sect2><tt/reiserfs/
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!reiserfs</nidx>
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<!-- <url url="http://idiom.com/˜beverly/reiserfs.html" 990919 -->
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<!-- <url url="http://devlinux.com/namesys/" 000501 -->
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<url url="http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/"
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<!-- <url url="http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/" 001203 -->
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<url url="http://www.namesys.com"
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name="reiserfs">
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on the web. While his filesystem has some very interesting features and
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is much faster than <tt/ext2fs/ and is in use by a number of people.
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The Enhanced File System project is now dead.
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<sect2><tt/Tux2 fs/
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!Tux2 fs</nidx>
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This is a variation on the <tt/ext2fs/ that adds robustness
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in case of unexpected interruptions such as power failure.
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After such an event <tt/Tux2 fs/ will restart with the file system
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in a consistent, recently recorded state without fsck or
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other recovery operations. To achieve this <tt/Tux2 fs/ uses
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a newly designed algorithm called Phase Tree.
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More information can be found at the
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<url url="http://tux2.sourceforge.net"
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name="project home page">.
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<sect1>Microsoft File Systems
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!Microsoft</nidx>
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<sect2>Coda
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!Coda</nidx>
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Work has started on a free replacement of <tt/AFS/ and is called
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<!-- Major input from Dr. A V LeBlanc -->
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<!-- Work has started on a free replacement of <tt/AFS/ and is called -->
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A networking filesystem similar to <tt/AFS/ is underway and is called
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<url url="http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/"
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name="Coda">.
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This is designed to be more robust and fault tolerant than <tt/AFS/,
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and supports mobile, disconnected operations.
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Currently it does not scale very well, and does not really have
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proper administrative tools, as <tt/AFS/ does and <tt/ARLA/ is
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beginning to.
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<sect2><tt/nbd/
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<nidx>disk!file system!nbd</nidx>
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<nidx>disk!device!network block device</nidx>
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The
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<url url="http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/˜pavel"
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<url url="http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/˜pavel/"
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name="Network Block Device">
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(<tt/nbd/) is available in Linux kernel 2.2
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and later and offers reportedly excellent performance. The interesting
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thing here is that it can be combined with RAID (see later).
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<sect2><tt/enbd/
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!enbd</nidx>
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<nidx>disk!device!enhanced network block device</nidx>
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The
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<url url="http://www.it.uc3m.es/˜ptb/nbd" <!-- 001213 -->
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name="Enhanced Network Block Device">
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(<tt/enbd/) is a project to enhance the <tt/nbd/ with
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features such as block journaled multi channel communications,
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internal failover and automatic balancing between channels
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and more.
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The intended use is for RAID over the net.
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<sect2>GFS
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!file system!GFS</nidx>
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<descrip>
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<tag/scsidev/ works by creating a database of drives and where they
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belong, check <em/ man scsifs/ for more information
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belong, check <em/ man scsifs/ and the
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<htmlurl url="http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/"
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name="scsidev home page">
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for more information
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<tag/devfs/ is a more long term project aimed at getting around the
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whole business of device numbering by making the <!-- <file>/dev</file> -->
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<htmlurl url="file:///dev/"
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<url url="http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/˜gef/fs/oldindex.html"
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name="file system">
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page
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which has been superceded by
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which has been superseded by
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<url url="http://www.penguin.cz/˜mhi/fs/"
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name="file system">
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and the article
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IBM's AIX system. Unfortunately this project is currently on hold.
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Another project is the
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<url url="http://linux.msede.com/lvm/"
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<!-- <url url="http://linux.msede.com/lvm/" 001210 -->
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<url url="http://www.sistina.com/lvm/"
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name="Logical Volume Manager">
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project that is similar to a project by HP.
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A
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<url url="http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/online-ext2/"
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name="patch for online growth of <tt/ext2fs/">
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name="patch for online growth of ext2fs">
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is available in early stages
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and related work is taking place at
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<url url="http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/"
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name="the <tt/ext2fs/ resize project">
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name="the ext2fs resize project">
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at Sourceforge.
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!technologies!yoke</nidx>
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There is also a
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<url url="http://www.it.uc3m.es/˜ptb/cgi-bin/cvs-yoke.cgi"
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<!-- <url url="http://www.it.uc3m.es/˜ptb/cgi-bin/cvs-yoke.cgi" -->
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<url url="http://www.it.uc3m.es/cgi-bin/ptb/cvs-yoke.cgi"
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name="Linux Yoke Driver">
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available in beta which
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Don't forget there are other alternatives to DOS, the most well known
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being
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<url url="http://www.caldera/dos/"
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<url url="http://www.caldera.com/dos/"
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name="DR-DOS">
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from
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<url url="http://www.caldera/"
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<url url="http://www.caldera.com/"
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name="Caldera">.
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This is a direct descendant from DR-DOS from Digital Research.
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It offers many features not found in the more common DOS, such
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<sect1>OS/2
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!operating systems, other!OS/2</nidx>
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The only special note here is that you can get a file system driver for
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The only special note here is that you can get file system driver for
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OS/2 that can read an <tt/ext2fs/ partition.
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Matthieu Willm's ext2fs Installable File System for OS/2 can be found at
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<url url="ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/ext2_240.zip"
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name="ftp-os2.nmsu.edu">,
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<url url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/ext2_240.zip"
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name="Sunsite">,
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<url url="ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/drivers/ifs/ext2_240.zip"
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name="ftp.leo.org"> and
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<url url="ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/diskutil/ext2_240.zip"
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name="ftp-os2.cdrom.com">.
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The IFS has read and write capabilities.
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<sect1>NT
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<p>
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@ -3352,6 +3455,21 @@ You can now read <tt/ext2fs/ partitions from NT using
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name="Explore2fs">.
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<sect1>Windows 2000
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!operating systems, other!Windows 2000</nidx>
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Most points regarding Windows NT also applies to its descendant Windows 2000
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though at the time of writing this I do not know if the aforementioned bugs
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have been fixed or not.
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While Windows 2000, like its predecessor, features RAID, at least one
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company,
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<url url="http://www.raidtoolbox.com/"
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name="RAID Toolbox">,
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has found the bundled RAID somewhat lacking and made their own commercial
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alternative.
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<sect1>Sun OS
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<p>
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<nidx>disk!operating systems, other!SunOS</nidx>
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@ -3539,7 +3657,8 @@ NFS mounting onto nox.
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There are also some more advanced clustering projects going, notably
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<itemize>
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<item>
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<url url="http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html"
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<!-- <url url="http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html" -->
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<url url="http://www.beowulf.org/"
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name="The Beowulf Project">
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<item>
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@ -3602,7 +3721,7 @@ Directory Suitability
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/
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+-bin 0
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+-boot 0
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+-boot 3
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+-dev 0
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+-etc 0
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+-home 5
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|
@ -3685,7 +3804,7 @@ With the cheap hardware available today it is possible to have
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quite a big system at home that is still cheap, systems that
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rival major servers of yesteryear. While many started out with
|
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old, discarded disks to build a Linux server (which is how this
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HOWTO came into existence), many can now afford to buy 20 GB
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HOWTO came into existence), many can now afford to buy 40 GB
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disks up front.
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Size remains important for some, and here are a few guidelines:
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@ -3811,7 +3930,8 @@ the other hand be a disadvantage, if possible try to adjust based on
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the URL. For more information check up on the most used servers such as
|
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<tt/Harvest/,
|
||||
<!-- http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid -->
|
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<url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/Squid"
|
||||
<!-- <url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/Squid" 001203 -->
|
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<url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/"
|
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name="Squid">
|
||||
and the one from
|
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<url url="http://www.netscape.com"
|
||||
|
@ -3886,7 +4006,8 @@ medium sized drives rather than one single huge disk. Also look into
|
|||
the High Availability (HA) project for more information.
|
||||
More information is available at
|
||||
|
||||
<url url="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/linux-ha/High-Availability-HOWTO.html"
|
||||
<!-- <url url="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/linux-ha/High-Availability-HOWTO.html" 001203 -->
|
||||
<url url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/linux-ha/High-Availability-HOWTO.html"
|
||||
name="High Availability HOWTO">
|
||||
and also at related
|
||||
<url url="http://www.henge.com/˜alanr/ha/index.html"
|
||||
|
@ -4081,11 +4202,15 @@ the many seeks among multiple spindles. It is recommended in the
|
|||
manuals and FAQs for the INN news server to put news spool
|
||||
and <tt>.overview</tt> files on separate drives for larger installations.
|
||||
|
||||
There is also a web page dedicated to
|
||||
<!-- There is also a web page dedicated to 001210 gone.
|
||||
<url url="http://www.spinne.com/usenet/inn-perf.html"
|
||||
name="INN optimising">
|
||||
well worth reading.
|
||||
well worth reading. -->
|
||||
|
||||
Some notes on
|
||||
<url url="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/internet/inn-wp.html"
|
||||
name="INN optimising under Tru64 UNIX">
|
||||
also applies to a wider audience, including Linux users.
|
||||
|
||||
<tag/Database/ applications can be demanding both in terms of drive
|
||||
usage and speed requirements. The details are naturally application
|
||||
|
@ -4368,7 +4493,7 @@ down into <tt>/etc</tt> directories.
|
|||
<sect>Implementation
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<nidx>disk!implementation</nidx>
|
||||
Having done the layout you should now have a detailled description on
|
||||
Having done the layout you should now have a detailed description on
|
||||
what goes where. Most likely this will be on paper but hopefully
|
||||
someone will make a more automated system that can deal with
|
||||
everything from the design, through partitioning to formatting and
|
||||
|
@ -4582,7 +4707,8 @@ This shows you what files are where so you can deal with them
|
|||
directly.
|
||||
|
||||
A freeware alternative is
|
||||
<url url="http://members.xoom.com/Zeleps"
|
||||
<!-- <url url="http://members.xoom.com/Zeleps" 001203 -->
|
||||
<url url="http://members.nbci.com/Zeleps/"
|
||||
name="Partition Resizer">
|
||||
which can shrink, grow and move partitions.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -4606,7 +4732,8 @@ the Microsoft system will try to mount the last partition as if
|
|||
it were a FAT partition in place of the last primary FAT partition.
|
||||
|
||||
There is more
|
||||
<url url="http://www.v-com.com/support/osinstalls/notes/95notes.html"
|
||||
<!-- <url url="http://www.v-com.com/support/osinstalls/notes/95notes.html" -->
|
||||
<url url="http://www.v-com.com/"
|
||||
name="information">
|
||||
available on the net on this.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -4615,7 +4742,8 @@ at the very end of your disk.
|
|||
|
||||
More information on multi OS installations are available at
|
||||
<url url="http://www.v-com.com/"
|
||||
name="V Communications">.
|
||||
name="V Communications"> but they keep rearranging the
|
||||
links continuously so no direct links can be offered here.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Since some hardware comes with setup software that is available
|
||||
|
@ -4708,7 +4836,13 @@ proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
|
|||
|
||||
This file is somewhat sensitive to the formatting used so it
|
||||
is best and also most convenient to edit it using one of the
|
||||
editing tools made for this purpose.
|
||||
editing tools made for this purpose,
|
||||
such as
|
||||
<url url="http://www.bit.net.au/˜bhepple/fstool/"
|
||||
name="on the netfstool">, a Tcl/Tk-based file system mounter,
|
||||
and
|
||||
<url url="http://kfstab.purespace.de/kfstab/"
|
||||
name="kfstab">, an editing tool for KDE.
|
||||
|
||||
Briefly, the fields are partition name, where to mount the partition,
|
||||
type of file system, mount options, when to dump for backup
|
||||
|
@ -5018,6 +5152,10 @@ Rescue disks can be gotten off the net, from your distribution or
|
|||
you can put one together yourself. Do make sure the boot and root
|
||||
parameters are set so the kernel will know where to find your system.
|
||||
|
||||
If you don't have a recovery floppy you can use the
|
||||
<url url="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/"
|
||||
name="GRUB"> boot loader
|
||||
to load from a Linux kernel somewhere on disk, with arguments.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<sect>Advanced Issues
|
||||
|
@ -5472,14 +5610,15 @@ could have a look at the
|
|||
<url url="http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/index.html"
|
||||
name="development page">.
|
||||
<!-- Only minor details are missing before it comes into the kernel. -->
|
||||
These drivers are now in the 2.1.x kernel development series as well as
|
||||
These drivers are in the 2.1.x kernel development series as well as
|
||||
in 2.0.34 and later.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- seems to be gone 001117
|
||||
<item>For more information on booting and also some BSD information
|
||||
have a look at
|
||||
<url url="http://www.paranoia.com/˜vax/boot.html"
|
||||
name="booting information">
|
||||
page.
|
||||
page. -->
|
||||
|
||||
</itemize>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -6055,6 +6194,56 @@ Linux installations use modern file systems these schemes are not used,
|
|||
however, some other operating systems have retained such schemes.
|
||||
-->
|
||||
|
||||
<sect1>Crash Recovery
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<nidx>disk!miscellaneous!recovery</nidx>
|
||||
<nidx>disk!miscellaneous!crash recovery</nidx>
|
||||
Occationally hard disks crash. A crash causing data scrambling can
|
||||
often be at least partially recovered from and there are already
|
||||
HOWTOs describing this.
|
||||
|
||||
In case of hardware failure things are far more serious, and you
|
||||
have two options: either send the drive to a professional data
|
||||
recovery company, or try recovering yourself. The latter is of
|
||||
course <em>high risk</em> and can cause more damage.
|
||||
|
||||
If a disk stops rotating or fails to spin up, the number one
|
||||
advice is first to turn off the system as fast as safely possible.
|
||||
|
||||
Next you could try disconnecting the drives and power up the
|
||||
machine, just to check power with a multimeter that power is
|
||||
present. Quite often connectors can get unseated and cause all
|
||||
sorts of problems.
|
||||
|
||||
If you decide to risk trying it yourself you could check all
|
||||
connectors and then reapply power and see if the drive spins up
|
||||
and responds. If it still is dead turn off power quickly,
|
||||
preferrably before the operating system boots. Make sure that
|
||||
delayed spinup is not deceiving you here.
|
||||
|
||||
If you decide to progress even further (and take higher risks)
|
||||
you could remove the drive, give it a firm tap on the side so
|
||||
that the disk moves a little with respect to the casing. This
|
||||
can help in unsticking the head from the surface, allowing the
|
||||
platter to move freely as the motor power is not sufficient to
|
||||
unstick a stuck head on its own.
|
||||
|
||||
Also if a drive has been turned off for a while after running
|
||||
for long periods of time, or if it has overheated, the lubricant
|
||||
can harden of drain out of the bearings. In this case warming the
|
||||
drive slowly and gently up to normal operating temperature will
|
||||
possibly recover the lubrication problems.
|
||||
|
||||
If after this the drive still does not respond the last possible
|
||||
and the highest risk suggestion is to replace the circuit board
|
||||
of the drive with a board from am identical model drive.
|
||||
|
||||
Often the contents of a drive is worth far more than the media
|
||||
itself, so do consider professional help. These companies have
|
||||
advanced equipment and know-how obtained from the manufacturers
|
||||
on how to recover a damaged drive, far beyond that of a hobbyist.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<!--
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
|
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