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Logical volume; Physical volume
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The storage provided by a storage device is offered in the form of volumes. A volume corresponds to a logically contiguous piece of storage. The volumes offered by storage devices are typically known as physical volumes.
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Storage controllers usually create volumes by stripping them across multiple disks that belong to a RAID group. RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 5 (use of parity, but no dedicated parity disk), and RAID 6 (can tolerate two failures) are the most common RAID types. These volumes get mapped into LUNs by host OS, or aggregated into logical volumes by a logical volume manager, or aggregated into virtual volumes by virtualization software. A file system and its associated files ultimately reside in a physical volume on a storage device. Database table’s data also ultimately resides in a physical volume on a storage device. Storage vendors typically use Volume as the unit of management. That is, they allow volume level...
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Voruganti, K. (2018). Volume. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_528
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