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Oracle Linux Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803249285
Pages 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Erik Benner Erik Benner
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Erik B. Thomsen Erik B. Thomsen
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Jonathan Spindel Jonathan Spindel
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good! 2. Chapter 2: Installing with and without Automation Magic 3. Chapter 3: Exploring the Various Boot Options and Kernels in Oracle Linux 4. Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Single-Instance Filesystems 5. Chapter 5: Software Management with DNF 6. Chapter 6: Eliminating All the SPOFs! An Exercise in Redundancy 7. Chapter 7: Oracle Linux 8 – Patching Doesn’t Have to Mean Rebooting 8. Chapter 8: DevOps Automation Tools – Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and More 9. Chapter 9: Keeping the Data Safe – Securing a System 10. Chapter 10: Revisiting Modules and AppStreams 11. Chapter 11: Lions, Tigers, and Containers – Oh My! Podman and Friends 12. Chapter 12: Navigating Ansible Waters 13. Chapter 13: Let’s All Go to the Cloud 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating and Managing Single-Instance Filesystems

Without data, there is no reason for a system to exist, and with that thought, the data has to live somewhere. In this chapter, we will cover the two most popular filesystems used to manage data that is local to the server: B-Tree File System (Btrfs, pronounced Butter F S) and eXtended File System (XFS, pronounced X F S).

These are single-instance filesystems, which are basically filesystems that are only mounted on a single server at any one time. There are also multi-instance filesystems that are mounted on multiple systems at the same time. Common examples are Oracle Clustered File System version 2 (OCFS2) and Global File System 2 (GFS2). All of these examples use shared block storage for the underlying storage.

Additionally, there is Ceph, which is not an acronym, but instead a reference to cephalopod. This is because Ceph is a distributed architecture that stores data on all nodes of a Ceph cluster. This allows Ceph to offer...

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