FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS

by Michael W. Lucas, Allan Jude

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 Advanced ZFS. This small book teaches you • 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 storage with FreeBSD Advanced ZFS.

Genres: Computers

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2016

About the author

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

Reviews

[Vincent · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for zfs users

All of the authors books are a must read! Would buy more in the future! I hope the author would write more about FreeBSD!