Storage

A Virtual Server had the ‘/’ partition almost 90 percent of its capacity and hence I had to use the extra added 200GB unpartitioned free space to the LVM volume mounted at ‘/’ without losing the data which already existed in ‘/’.Eventhough the tutorial follows  LVM extend of a VPS it can be followed while […]

Since the dawn of mankind, we humans have been creating information. We also invented technologies to store the information and keep growing those technologies to keep up with the growing requirements. So, using technology is not something which we can stop, the thing we have to do is not to stop building technologies, rather find […]

There are situations where Windows mirror drive failed that is the drives fail in Windows servers with software RAID 1.  Below is a situation which occurs usually were one of the 2 drives of the mirrored set fails or both fails.      IN DETAIL Explanation of some terms used in this article. Mirrored drives […]

PREFACE Software RAID is when the interaction of multiple drives is organized completely by software. RAID Level 1 (mirroring) achieves increased security since even if one drive fails, all the data is still stored on the second drive. There were a couple of instances where I have to break this RAID configuration. The RAID replace disk have […]

MOOSEFS Moosefs stands for Moose File system which is a distributed file system. A file system which is shared for multiple systems via network is known as Distributed File System. Let me explains more about MooseFS Storage sharing Advantages of Distributed File System Facilitates user to access all resources from a single point As the files […]