Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...

I would like to bring up LVM extent size and parted vs LVM. First off I would like more clarification on parted I understand that it is meant to handle disk 2TB and larger. However, with that said why ...

I have a IBM server at work hooked up to an Apple Xsan. And it works very well with linux. I run CentOS 5.2 on it. The Xsan has two distinct sides. Each is independent of the other and configured ...