FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials (IT Mastery, Band 4)

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.



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!