FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems by Lucas Michael W

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.