Storage and Virtualization: Block Devices vs Filesystems

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Explore the fundamentals of storage and virtualization. Learn the difference between block devices like Linux /dev/sda and filesystems in data infrastructure.

Storage and Virtualization: Block Devices vs Filesystems

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I want to learn about storage systems first, ssad hdd nas san iscsi fiber channel flash storage etc from very basic to core details. Then move to virtualisation core basics from os level and then to kubernetes and then to kubernetes based virtualisation like kvm etc

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