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* Vivek Gite: Comparison: Linux and UNIX ~ ZFS vs XFS vs EXT4 filesystem
published by vivek on 2007-08-30 20:51:58 in the "File system" category
Vivek Gite This is an interesting filesystem comparison. If you are looking to build cheap storage for personal use file system decision is quite important: This is my attempt to cut through the hype and uncertainty to find a storage subsystem that works. I compared XFS and EXT4 under Linux with ZFS under OpenSolaris. Aside from the different [...]

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* Vivek Gite: Why my Linux server ext3 filesystem go read-only?
published by vivek on 2007-08-28 10:46:57 in the "File system" category
Vivek Gite From my mailbag: We have 5 Dell server collocated running CentOS 4.x and 5.x server operating system. Sometime my file system (ext3) goes read-only. I?d like to know what could be causing such a problem? My guess: a) Hardware problem / hard disk problem, check harddisk for errors. b) High disk I/O aka busy I/O retry error can [...]

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* Vivek Gite: Linux: Find out how many file descriptors are being used
published by vivek on 2007-08-21 18:17:34 in the "File system" category
Vivek Gite While administrating a box, you may wanted to find out what a processes is doing and find out how many file descriptors (fd) are being used. You will surprised to find out that process does open all sort of files: => Actual log file => /dev files => UNIX Sockets => Network sockets => Library files /lib /lib64 => Executables and [...]

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* Vivek Gite: Linux display the date when a file was accessed with stat command
published by vivek on 2007-08-06 09:58:40 in the "File system" category
Vivek Gite A quick question from my mail bag: How do I display or get the date when a file was last time accessed? The best and simplest way is to use stat command. It displays file or file system status such as: => File size => File type => Inode number => UID/GID => File access , modify (change) and creation time etc. stat [...]

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* Vivek Gite: /proc/filesystems: Find out what filesystems supported by kernel
published by vivek on 2007-07-04 17:37:17 in the "File system" category
Vivek Gite /proc/filesystems is the file used to detect filesystems supported by running kernel. You can quickly run grep or cat command to display the list of all supported file system. nodev indicates that the file system is not associated with a physical device such as /dev/sdb1. If you see ext3 or vfat, it means you will [...]

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* Vivek Gite: ZFS on Linux using FUSE
published by vivek on 2007-06-19 14:56:38 in the "File system" category
Vivek Gite Linus Torvalds called ZFS one of the very few bright spots in Solaris. ZFS released under Sun’s Common Development and Distribution License. Linux is under GPL v2 which makes ZFS incompatible with Linux. I?ve used ZFS under Solaris and it is absolutely rocking file system. Now this hot feature from OpenSolaris is taking a weird [...]

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