System Administration, Week 2: Storage Virtualization
In this video, we cover the concept of storage virtualization -- combining individual disks into larger storage pools and utilizing resources from such a pool. This includes a discussion of RAID and some of the different supported levels as well as Logical Volume Management (LVM). We further illustrate some of these properties by example of ZFS.
System Administration, Week 2: Physical Disk Structure
We'll take a quick look at what a hard disk drive actually looks like. This helps us understand addressing schemes such as CHS and LBA, what physical aspects affect hard disk performance, as well as partitioning requirements. While a lot of this is tied to old magentic-spinning-platters drives, it explains a lot of assumptions partitions and file systems make even if using SSDs.
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