FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials |
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| Author:
| Lucas, Michael |
| Series title: | IT Mastery Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-34320-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2014 |
| Publisher: | Tilted Windmill Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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 installsAnd more!Don't just configure your storage. Understand it. Get FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials today!