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Architecture and Design of the Linux Storage Stack

You're reading from   Architecture and Design of the Linux Storage Stack Gain a deep understanding of the Linux storage landscape and its well-coordinated layers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837639960
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Muhammad Umer Muhammad Umer
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Diving into the Virtual Filesystem
2. Chapter 1: Where It All Starts From – The Virtual Filesystem FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Explaining the Data Structures in a VFS 4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Actual Filesystems Under the VFS 5. Part 2: Navigating Through the Block Layer
6. Chapter 4: Understanding the Block Layer, Block Devices, and Data Structures 7. Chapter 5: Understanding the Block Layer, Multi-Queue, and Device Mapper 8. Chapter 6: Understanding I/O Handling and Scheduling in the Block Layer 9. Part 3: Descending into the Physical Layer
10. Chapter 7: The SCSI Subsystem 11. Chapter 8: Illustrating the Layout of Physical Media 12. Part 4: Analyzing and Troubleshooting Storage Performance
13. Chapter 9: Analyzing Physical Storage Performance 14. Chapter 10: Analyzing Filesystems and the Block Layer 15. Chapter 11: Tuning the I/O Stack 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

adaptive replacement cache (ARC) 116

application programming interface (API) 8

B

biolatency tool 204

biosnoop tool 204

biotop tool 204

bitesize tool 204

block 7, 11, 213

block device 7

representing, in Linux 90

block I/O

analyzing 204

block layer

data structures, using 90

I/O request 99, 100

BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) 17, 188

C

cache hit 50

cache mechanisms

operational modes 115

cache miss 51

capacity arena 5

client and server model, SCSI

communication, with SCSI devices 151

interaction, between SCSI and block layer 151

CoW filesystems 59

D

data blocks 31

data mode 215

data structures

in virtual filesystem (VFS) 26

data structures, in block layer 90

bio structure 95, 96

bio_vec structure ...

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