FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642350012)

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.