FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems (IT Mastery);

Filesystems for everything! FreeBSD includes many special-purpose filesystems. FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems takes you through these filesystems, helping you solve problems you didn’t know you have. These filesystems underlie everything from application servers to jails. You’ll learn to manage:

removable media

MSDOS and Linux filesystems

CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray disks

devfs

process filesystems

the file descriptor filesystem

the POSIX message queue filesystem

union mounts

null mounts

both memory filesystems, and when to use each

NFS versions 2, 3, and 4

iSCSI targets and initiators

the Common Internet File System

networked disk redundancy with geom_gate and HAST

high availability storage with HAST and iSCSI

NFSv4 Access Control Lists

User Space Filesystems

FreeBSD’s Solaris-compatible automounter

System administrators of any expertise level will expand their FreeBSD mastery with FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems.