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s390 storage

Introduction

IBM's System z has been around for a long time – since the mid 1960s. Since this time, the mainframe has evolved and adapted new technology while still maintaining complete backward compatibility. Most people are unaware that services...

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bcache and/vs. LVM cache

What's going on here?

One of the bottlenecks of today's computers is storage. While CPUs, buses and other components of computers have really nice values of throughput going up to several GiBs/s, disks are really slow compared to them. HDDs give few...

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Introduction

In this first post I want to give a quick introduction to Blivet. I will try to avoid going into too much detail.

Blivet is a python module for configuring storage on Linux. It is also the storage backend for Anaconda – the Fedora OS installer. That...

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