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In earlier chapters, we touched on the subject of resource limits. In this chapter, we're going to look first at ways of managing your resource allocation, then at ways of dealing with files that are accessed by many users more or less simultaneously, and lastly at one tool provided in Linux systems for overcoming the limitations of flat files as a data storage medium.
We can summarize these topics as three ways of managing data: