FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems

Filesystems for every need!

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.

With Specialty Filesystems 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.