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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning

by Cathy Warrick, Craig Gordon, Benoit Granier, Keitaro Imai, Rosemary McCutchen, Brannen Proctor, Jim Sedgwick, Paulus Usong, Mary Ann Vandermark, John Wickes
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
530 pages
18h 34m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 8. Open system servers - Linux for xSeries 277
8.2.7 Understanding and tuning the file systems
Ultimately, all data must be retrieved from and stored to disk. Disk accesses are usually
measured in milliseconds and are thousands of times slower than other components (such as
memory or PCI operations, which are measured in nanoseconds or microseconds). The
Linux file system is the method by which data is stored and managed on the disks.
Many different file systems are available for Linux that differ in performance and scalability.
Besides storing and managing data on the disks, file systems are also responsible for
guaranteeing data integrity ...
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