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Learning RHEL Networking

You're reading from   Learning RHEL Networking Gain Linux administration skills by learning new networking concepts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287831
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Enterprise Linux 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Network Settings 3. Configuring Key Network Services 4. Implementing iSCSI SANs 5. Implementing btrfs 6. File Sharing with NFS 7. Implementing Windows Shares with Samba 4 8. Integrating RHEL 7 into Microsoft Active Directory Domains 9. Deploying the Apache HTTPD Server 10. Securing the System with SELinux 11. Network Security with firewalld Index

Chapter 5. Implementing btrfs

In this chapter, we will investigate what is on offer with btrfs (pronounced as Better FS). Although not directly related to networking, we will soon look at how to share filesystems; for this reason and as btrfs is so incredibly good, we will take a look at it right here and right now. Btrfs is a local filesystem that provides the benefits of integrated volume management operations with easy growth and a fault-tolerance built-in the filesystem. It's not fully supported by Red Hat and ships as a technology preview; it has to be said that Red Hat is cautious on this matter because SUSE has had btrfs as their default filesystem since Enterprise Linux 11 SP2 and continues on SLES 12.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of btrfs
  • Overview of the lab environment
  • Creating the btrfs filesystem
  • The copy-on-write technology
  • Resizing the btrfs filesystem
  • Adding devices to the btrfs filesystem
  • Mounting multidisk btrfs volumes from /etc...
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