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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But for those simply doing non-RAC database deployments, ASM is not yet as scalable as the Linux ext3 filesystem using an LVM. And while all these benchmarks were done using the standard LVM included ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home.