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 Mastery: Advanced ZFS.
This small book teaches you to:
- 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 storgae with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.