Provides information about how to manage storage devices on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
- About This Guide
- I File Systems and Mounting
- 1 Overview of File Systems in Linux
- 1.1 Terminology
- 1.2 Btrfs
- 1.3 XFS
- 1.4 Ext2
- 1.5 Ext3
- 1.6 Ext4
- 1.7 ReiserFS
- 1.8 tmpfs
- 1.9 Other Supported File Systems
- 1.10 Blacklisted file systems
- 1.11 Large File Support in Linux
- 1.12 Linux Kernel Storage Limitations
- 1.13 Freeing unused file system blocks
- 1.14 Troubleshooting File Systems
- 1.15 Additional Information
- 2 Resizing File Systems
- 3 Mounting storage devices
- 4 Multi-tier Caching for Block Device Operations
- 1 Overview of File Systems in Linux
- II Logical Volumes (LVM)
- 5 LVM Configuration
- 5.1 Understanding the Logical Volume Manager
- 5.2 Creating Volume Groups
- 5.3 Creating Logical Volumes
- 5.4 Automatically Activating Non-Root LVM Volume Groups
- 5.5 Resizing an Existing Volume Group
- 5.6 Resizing a Logical Volume
- 5.7 Deleting a Volume Group or a Logical Volume
- 5.8 Disabling LVM on boot
- 5.9 Using LVM Commands
- 5.10 Tagging LVM2 Storage Objects
- 6 LVM Volume Snapshots
- 5 LVM Configuration
- III Software RAID
- IV Network Storage
- 14 iSNS for Linux
- 15 Mass Storage over IP Networks: iSCSI
- 15.1 Installing the iSCSI LIO Target Server and iSCSI Initiator
- 15.2 Setting Up an iSCSI LIO Target Server
- 15.3 Configuring iSCSI Initiator
- 15.4 Setting Up Software Targets Using targetcli-fb
- 15.5 Using iSCSI Disks when Installing
- 15.6 Troubleshooting iSCSI
- 15.7 iSCSI LIO Target Terminology
- 15.8 Additional Information
- 16 Fibre Channel Storage over Ethernet Networks: FCoE
- 17 NVMe-oF
- 18 Managing Multipath I/O for Devices
- 18.1 Understanding Multipath I/O
- 18.2 Hardware Support
- 18.3 Planning for Multipathing
- 18.4 Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on multipath systems
- 18.5 Updating SLE on multipath systems
- 18.6 Multipath management tools
- 18.7 Configuring the System for Multipathing
- 18.8 Multipath configuration
- 18.9 Configuring policies for failover, queuing, and failback
- 18.10 Configuring path grouping and priorities
- 18.11 Selecting devices for multipathing
- 18.12 Multipath device names and WWIDs
- 18.13 Miscellaneous options
- 18.14 Best Practice
- 18.15 Troubleshooting MPIO
- 19 Managing Access Control Lists over NFSv4
- A GNU licenses
- 1.1 File System Types in Linux
- 1.2 Maximum Sizes of Files and File Systems (On-Disk Format, 4 KiB Block Size)
- 1.3 Storage Limitations
- 2.1 File System Support for Resizing
- 7.1 Comparison of RAID 5 and RAID 6
- 9.1 Nested RAID Levels
- 9.2 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 (1+0) by Nesting
- 9.3 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 (0+1) by Nesting
- 9.4 Complex RAID 10 compared to Nested RAID 10
- 9.5 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 Using mdadm
- 11.1 Tasks Involved in Resizing a RAID
- 11.2 Scenario for Increasing the Size of Component Partitions
- 12.1 Translation between Non-SES-2 Patterns and SES-2 Patterns
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