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Michael W. Lucas

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Michael W. Lucas is the author of fifty-odd critically-acclaimed nonfiction books. As Michael Warren Lucas, he's written several novels. ...more

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134: The Clunky NVMe Interface

One PHP Apocalypse later, here’s OpenZFS Mastery on NVMe.

The slowest, most complicated, and most error-prone part of an SSD is the Flash Translation Layer. Pretending to be as stupid as a 1980s spinning disk is hard labor. Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) uses very similar hardware but drops this clumsy pretense, instead offering an interface designed for fast flash memory. NVMe itself is

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	SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys 4.18 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition 4.33 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Networking for Systems Administrators 4.25 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid 4.23 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS by Michael W. Lucas (Goodreads Author), Allan Jude 4.51 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ed Mastery: The Standard Unix Text Editor 4.48 avg rating — 67 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid 3.91 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS by Michael W. Lucas (Goodreads Author), Allan Jude 4.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudo Mastery: User Access Control for Real People 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute Bsd: The Ultimate Guide to Free Bsd by Michael W. Lucas (Goodreads Author), Jordan Hubbard (Foreword by) 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Michael W. Lucas wrote a new blog post 134: The Clunky NVMe Interface One PHP Apocalypse later, here’s OpenZFS Mastery on NVMe. The slowest, most complicated, and most error-prone part of an SSD is the Flash Translation L Read more of this blog post »
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Michael Lucas and 2 other people liked DeAnna Knippling's review of Laserblasted: "Aliens...lasers...B Movies...oh my! If I remember correctly, this book started out as an April Fool's prank; at any rate it's a satire on the 1978 movie Laserblast, which is (according to the author, I haven't seen it) terrible. Not "so bad it's goo" Read more of this review »
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Michael Lucas liked Michael's review of Laserblasted: "Thank whatever deity that you pray to that Michael W. Lucas wrote this book so you don’t have to watch the movie Laserblast. Now, after reading this hillarious story featuring the beats of that awful movie you might be tempted to watch it. DON’T DO I" Read more of this review »
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