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This middleware sits atop the operating system to facilitate management of Oracle9i clusters. Oracle will make the code available under the General Public License, and it will be downloadable ...

BANGALORE: Furthering its commitment to Linux, Oracle Corporation has announced the release of its source code for a new cluster file system on Linux. The new cluster file system for Linux will help ...

Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), ...

Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there is an unused portion of varying size ...

In today's competitive environment, the adage “time is money” takes on literal meaning. Keeping your business' data on-line and accessible is the foundation of overall system uptime. Whether it be ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...