FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials

FreeBSD is one of the oldest and most featureful open-source Unix-like operating systems. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials takes you on a deep dive into FreeBSD’s disk management systems.

FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials

You’ll learn about:

• identifying your storage hardware
  
• the Common Access Method
  

• GEOM–FreeBSD’s powerful and flexible stackable storage system
  
• GUID Partition Tables, the modern disk partitioning standard
  
• MBR/disklabel partitioning, used by older and embedded systems
  
• avoiding common partitioning errors
  
• aligning partitions to the physical disk, for peak performance
  
• the high-performance Unix File System
  
• tuning UFS to fit your environment and load
  
• Two ways to journal filesystems, and when to use each
  
• The GELI and GBDE disk encryption systems, and when to use each
  
• Software-based disk mirroring, striping, RAID-5 and RAID-10.
  
• Custom FreeBSD installs
  

And more!

Don’t just configure your storage. Understand it. Get FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials today!