December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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Major features
Table A-1 lists side-by-side comparisons of major features of AIX and Linux.
| Feature | AIX | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Logical Volume Manager | LVM (can only increase file system size on the fly) | LVM (can increase and also decrease file systems on the fly) |
| JFS | JFS, JFS2 | JFS, ext2 and ext3 (Red Hat), Reiserfs (SuSE) |
| Admin interface | Smit, Smitty, WebSM | Webmin (Openware) redhat-config (Red Hat) YasT2 (SuSE) |
| Boot options | SMS menus (Press 1 or F1), Service Processor menus (Press 1 @beep) | SMS menus (Press 1 or F1), Open Firmware menus (Press 8 or F8) |
| Hardware monitoring | Inventory Scout, diagnostics, error logger | /var/adm/messages, Custom scripts |
| Clustering | HACMP | Cluster Suite (Red Hat) Heartbeat (SuSE) |
| Recovering root access | boot from CD/network to maintenance ... |