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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

The Copy-On-Write technology


One of the underpinning technologies that helps with the success of the btrfs filesystem is Copy-On-Write (CoW). CoW is used in logical volume management filesystems, including ZFS used in Solaris (an Oracle product), Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy, and btrfs.

These CoW filesystems allow you to take instant snapshots or backups. This is due to the fact that as a file is written and a copy of it is made; hence, Copy-on-Write. As traditional filesystems implement this, the virtual disk technology can also implement this CoW technology in qcow2. In this way, any allocated disk space in the qcow2 disk file is not used on the host until it's written to.

For generic filesystems, you will find the CoW technology very useful. Being able to revert to previous file versions is like gold dust on traditional file servers. However, if you use btrfs to host very large data files, such as virtual disk files, the CoW technology can perform slow writes.

Using the chattr command...

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