LPI Linux Certification/Adjusting Storage Device Access
Detailed Objectives (204.2)
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Description: Candidates should be able to configure kernel options to support various drives. This objective includes software tools to view & modify hard disk settings including iSCSI devices.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA
- Tools and utilities to configure Solid State Drives including AHCI and NVMe
- Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyse system resources (e.g. interrupts)
- Awareness of sdparm command and its uses
- Tools and utilities for iSCSI
- Awareness of SAN, including relevant protocols (AoE, FCoE)
Terms and Utilities:
hdparm
,sdparm
nvme
tune2fs
fstrim
sysctl
/dev/hd*
,/dev/sd*
,/dev/nvme*
iscsiadm
,scsi_id
,iscsid
andiscsid.conf
- WWID, WWN, LUN numbers