Monthly Archives: October 2016

Dell PERC / MegaRAID Disk Cache Policy

The Dell PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) cards provide a competitive server-based fault-tolerant storage solution. NOTE that Dell often quotes a server baseline configuration without any write cache on the RAID card – this makes the baseline config appear to be … Continue reading

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Mount CIFS Share on RHEL/CentOS

Some quick notes regarding mounting CIFS shares on RHEL and CentOS. Note that system-wide network filesystem mounts are typically specified in /etc/fstab and require supported kernel modules for compatible vfs filesystem types. In the case of SMB filesystems, the modern … Continue reading

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