Friday, February 1, 2019

R80.20 - Kernel Ver 3.10 - GPT Partition Table, XFS (partition and file system CHANGES





GaiA 3.10 Installation

Methods
  1. Upgrade/Install  =>   CPUSE   => Kernel3.10, MBR Partition Table, EXT3    (partition table and file system remains the same)
  2. Backup Machine data  => Clean installation  => Kernel 3.10, GPT Partition Table, XFS   (partition and file system CHANGES)

GaiA 3.10  (SK141173)  Upgraded Linux kernel (based on RHEL 7.x kernel 3.10)


Linux Kernel is upgraded to Version 3.10
- Support newer and more advanced hardware and appliances

Partition Table was upgraded from MBR (Master Boot Record) to GPT
  Adds support for large single storage devices

Introducing XFS Filesystem
Faster than EXT3, Specially with large files

Includes new and improved user space packages.


New system tools for debugging, monitoring and configuring the system:
  • iotop (provides I/O runtime stats)
  • lshw (provides detailed information about all HW)
  • lsusb (provides information about all devices connected to USB)
  • lsscsi (provides information about storage)
  • ps (new version, more counters)
  • psmisc (new version, more counters)
  • top (new version, more counters)
  • iostat (new version, more counters)