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| A storage technology that analyzes data to be stored on disk and takes out duplicate patterns to allow for more efficient storage. Used in VDO. |
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| A service that is used by the Linux kernel to communicate with storage devices. |
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| The building block that is used in LVM to create logical volumes. It normally has a size of a few megabytes that corresponds to the size of the physical ones that are used. |
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| In LVM, the entity on which a file system is created. They are often used on RHEL because they offer important advantages, such as the option to dynamically resize them and the file system that it hosts. |
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| The physical building block that is used when creating LVM physical volumes. |
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| The foundation building block of an LVM configuration. Typically corresponds to a partition or a complete disk device. |
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| A “photo” of the actual state of a file system. |
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| The new volume managing file system in RHEL 8. |
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| In storage, an approach that enables the system to present more storage to the storage user than what is really available by using smart technologies to store data, like deduplication. |
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| Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) |
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| A new advanced storage solution in RHEL 8 that compresses data by using deduplication and can therefore be used for thin allocation of storage volumes. |
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| The abstraction layer that in Logical Volume Manager is used to represent all available storage presented by physical volumes from which logical volumes can be created. |
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