FreeBSD Mastery
by Michael W Lucas, Allan Jude · first published 2014
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…ancestors have been developed since 1975. The modern Jails is developed since 1998. It is an incredible flexible and lightweight virtualization platform. Michael W Lucas wrote a very good book about it ("FreeBSD Mastery: Jails").
on “Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools” ↗I love the books that Michael W Lucas has written. I bought physical copies of several of them (the “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” book, “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems”, “FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS” and “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”) on FreeBSD Mall. I finished reading the “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” book, and am currently…
on “Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store” ↗…ZFS has lots of features totally new to me so working with only the man pages for the ZFS related commands was not giving me much fun. I ended up buying two small books that I can't recommend enough, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS by Michael W Lucas and Allan Jude, see [1] and [2]. These books are each around 200 pages long. The chapters of the first book are: 1. Introducing ZFS 2. Virtual…
on “Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0” ↗I highly recommend the book “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” by Michael W Lucas, in printed form https://bookshop.org/p/books/freebsd-mastery-specialty-files... It had everything I needed to start manually setting up jails to my liking. I eventually had…
on “FreeBSD Jails Containers” ↗…wanna learn more a about ZFS and have a good understanding of how you can run databases and other things on ZFS and really utilize it (not just gaining more performance) then I highly recommend the book FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.
on “ZFS, BTRFS, XFS, EXT4 and LVM with KVM – A Storage Performance Comparison (2015)” ↗…desktop. These days I run FreeBSD on servers and also on a Raspberry Pi. If you are familiar with other Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, and you would like to use FreeBSD, then I think the FreeBSD Mastery books that I mentioned which I have physical copies of are useful also. If you are not familiar with Unix-like systems at all then the FreeBSD Mastery books are probably not yet so useful for you. The…
on “Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store” ↗…[http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/techsnap/], current host of the BSD Now podcast [http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/bsdnow/], a current member of the FreeBSD Core team, and co-authored not one but two books on the ZFS file system FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS [https://www.amazon.com/FreeBSD-Mastery-ZFS-7/dp/0692452354/] and FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS [https://www.amazon.com/FreeBSD-Mastery-Advanced-ZFS/dp/06926...]
on “Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc” ↗…only one feature that uses massive amounts of memory. Online de duplication relies on keeping an in ram table of duplicated blocks. This means that more duplication you have the larger the table is. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS by Michael Lucas around pg 174 Deduplication Memory Needs ========================== "For a rough-and-dirty approximation, you can assume that 1 TB of deduplicated data uses about 5 GB of RAM.…
on “ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon” ↗ZFS requires a lot of ram to enable on line deduplication. From Freebsd Mastery: ZFS Pg 135 "For a rough-and-dirty approximation, you can assume that 1 TB of deduplicated data uses about 5 GB of RAM. You can more closely approximate memory needs for your particular data by looking…
on “APFS in Detail” ↗