FreeBSD Mastery by Michael W Lucas

FreeBSD Mastery by Michael W Lucas

ZFS improves everything about systems administration. Once you peek under the hood, though, ZFS' bewildering array of knobs and tunables can overwhelm anyone. ZFS experts can make their servers zing--and now you can, too, with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.

This small book teaches you to:

• Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks boring
• Delegate filesystem privileges to users
• Containerize ZFS datasets with jails
• Quickly and efficiently replicate data between machines
• split layers off of mirrors
• optimize ZFS block storage
• handle large storage arrays
• select caching strategies to improve performance
• manage next-generation storage hardware
• identify and remove bottlenecks
• build screaming fast database storage
• dive deep into pools, metaslabs, and more

Whether you manage a single small server or international datacenters, simplify your storgae with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.

Michael W. Lucas is a network/security engineer who keeps getting stuck with network problems nobody else wants to touch. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Absolute FreeBSD, Absolute OpenBSD, Network Flow Analysis, Cisco Routers for the Desperate, and PGP & GPG, all from No Starch Press.