FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS

by Michael W. Lucas, Allan Jude

21st-Century Data Storage

ZFS, the fast, flexible, self-healing filesystem, revolutionized data storage. Leveraging ZFS changes everything about managing FreeBSD systems.

With FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, you’ll learn to:

understand how your hardware affects ZFS
arrange your storage for optimal performance
configure datasets that match your enterprise’s needs
repair and monitor storage pools
expand your storage
use compression to enhance performance
determine if deduplication is right for your data
understand how copy-on-write changes everything
snapshot filesystems
automatically rotate snapshots
clone filesystems
understand how ZFS uses and manages space
do custom FreeBSD ZFS installs

Whether you’re a long-term FreeBSD administrator or a new user, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS will help you simplify storage.

Master ZFS with FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS.

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, Computers

233 pages, Paperback

First published May 16, 2015

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

[Jonathan Lin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro to zfs on freebsd. Helpful to have all the info in one place. There are a lot of conflicting information online about zfs and it's good to have a more unified look into zfs configuration and administration.

Could do with an update though (for more recent version of zfs). In particular, I'd like to know more about draid and hot spares. 4/5 for that reason.

[Mateusz PK · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Full of useful, practical content and at the same time written in a light, fun, engaging way. Gives a great introduction into what is ZFS and how to operate it. For a Linux user, the BSD part of the book was not getting in the way: it was easy to translate the concepts to Linux ecosystem, or skip parts applicable only to FreeBSD.

[Ievgen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book, but requires practicing entering zfs commands and building zfs storage while reading.

[Daniel J · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started this book while knowing very little to nothing about zfs and it taught me a lot!

[Guillermo García Rojas C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelente libro para dominar ZFS.

[Cristian Drincu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelent introduction to ZFS, clear and concise. Must read!

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent detail on ZFS, how it works and how to implement it plus the theory behind it!

[Mnhcorp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative, lucid and funny. The golden triangle, kudos!