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 ...

Oracle released version 10.2.0.1 of the database (10g release 2) Oracle released version 2.0 of the ASM kernel driver and libraries Oracle released version 2.0 of the Oracle Cluster File System As you ...

For this issue we cover the Linux.Ars visit to the OhioLinux fest, LVM snapshotting with XFS for hot backups, Tomboy, and more. On October 2nd, Jorge Castro and I found ourselves on our way to the ...

Pro & Cons of Creating Logical Volumes in Linux. Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999 ...

Under Linux, an LVM is enabled by a kernel-loadable module, similar to a device driver in Windows. Kernel modules capture disk functions from user operations and convert them to write to the ...