Aspects of System Administration File-Systems and Disks

CS765 - Aspects of System Administration

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CS765 - Aspects of System Administration Filesystems and Disks

Department of Computer Science Stevens Institute of Technology Jan Schaumann [e-mail] http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~jschauma/765-ASA/

Lecture 02: Filesystems and Disks

January 30, 2006

CS765 - Aspects of System Administration

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Topics covered
Adding, (re-)partitioning, mounting disks requires understanding of: basic disk concepts basic filesystem concepts local and remote file systems

Lecture 02: Filesystems and Disks

January 30, 2006

CS765 - Aspects of System Administration

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Topics covered
Adding, (re-)partitioning, mounting disks requires understanding of: basic disk concepts disk interfaces physical disk structure partitions basic filesystem concepts local and remote file systems

Lecture 02: Filesystems and Disks

January 30, 2006

CS765 - Aspects of System Administration

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Topics covered
Adding, (re-)partitioning, mounting disks requires understanding of: basic disk concepts disk interfaces physical disk structure partitions basic filesystem concepts RAID logical volume managment device formatting local and remote file systems

Lecture 02: Filesystems and Disks

January 30, 2006

CS765 - Aspects of System Administration

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Topics covered
Adding, (re-)partitioning, mounting disks requires understanding of: basic disk concepts disk interfaces physical disk structure partitions basic filesystem concepts RAID logical volume managment device formatting local and remote file systems the Berkeley Fast File System (FFS) NFS

Lecture 02: Filesystems and Disks

January 30, 2006

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Basic Disk Concepts: Disk Interfaces
Standard interfaces for connecting storage devices: SCSI ATA (IDE/EIDE and S-ATA) Fibre Channel Other interfaces: USB FireWire

Lecture 02: Filesystems and Disks

January 30, 2006