May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
13h 46m
English
By Steve Best
Linux supports several types of file systems, including non-journaling file systems and several journaling file systems. We will discuss the journaling and non-journaling file system types available in Linux, including their purpose, implementation, and use, and we will examine ways to tune each type of file system. We will also look at factors that affect file system performance, including how file systems are implemented and created, and how the disks on which they reside affect their performance.
This section looks at some file system basics, including factors to take into account when creating a new file system, creating optimized file systems, and basic file ...