December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
9h 18m
English
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RAID
Here are some web sites that provide information about RAID.
The Linux Documentation (http://www.tldp.org) project provides a free, comprehensive library covering Linux and open source software. Of particular note are the following documents.
The Software RAID HOWTO provides a quick tutorial on configuring arrays, using raidtools. You can find this tutorial at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html.
The Boot+Root+Raid+LILO mini-HOWTO provides cookbook examples for booting directly from a software RAID using LILO. You can access the document at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html.
“A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID),” also known as the start of the Berkeley Papers, is available from the ACM web site (http://www.acm.org/sigmod/dblp/db/conf/sigmod/PattersonGK88.html), provided you have a subscription to their digital library.
http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/linux/ide-raid/ contains a case study of various ATA RAID setups.
Filesystems
The following web sites provide information about filesystems.
- http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html
The ext2 home page
- http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html
A technical paper authored by the developers of ext2
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jfs/
IBM’s JFS for Linux home page
- http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
The XFS for Linux home page
- http://www.namesys.com/
The ReiserFS home page
- http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/
The ext3 home page
Hardware
Storage Review (http://www.storagereview.com ...
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