OpenZFS Mastery Sponsor

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This book does not exist yet. This sponsorship supports writing it.

Epub sponsors get their names in the epub/mobi versions of the book. They will receive a free copy of the completed ebook in epub and a PDF of the print version, all DRM-free, once we finish writing it.

Print sponsors get their names in the ebook and print version of the book, the DRM-free ebook, and a physical gift that might or might not be the book. The gift will be personalized. Please provide a shipping address and a phone number that can receive SMS! My shippers are asking for phone numbers even in the US, so I’m asking you.

Once the book exists there will also be a Kickstarter, but that will act more as a pre-order. Sponsors support me as I write and test the manuscript. The print sponsorship (or Patronizing) will also be the only way to get a personalized gift mailed to you.

Not sure if you’ve already bought this? Check your recent orders If you sponsor twice, you get your name in twice. Double print sponsors will get two identical gifts. Yes, MWL watches for duplicate orders. When he catches them he offers a refund–but if he misses it? Oh well.

by Michael W Lucas and Allan Jude

Data Storage for the 21st Century

ZFS, the fast, flexible, self-healing filesystem, revolutionized data storage. Leveraging ZFS changes everything about managing Unix-like systems.

“Thanks for making ZFS knowable by everyone” — Matt Ahrens, ZFS co-creator

“Thanks for doing this… now I don’t have to” — Jeff Bonwick, ZFS co-creator

With OpenZFS Mastery you’ll learn to:

• select hardware for ZFS systems
• arrange your storage for optimal performance
• configure datasets that match your enterprise’s needs
• repair and monitor storage pools
• expand your storage
• use compression to enhance performance
• determine if deduplication is right for your data
• understand how copy-on-write changes everything
• snapshot filesystem
• automatically rotate snapshots
• clone filesystems
• optimize how ZFS uses and manages space
• Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks safe
• Delegate filesystem privileges to users
• Delegate ZFS datasets to containers
• 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 multinational data centers, OpenZFS Mastery will simplify your life.

What’s Changed?

This might be considered a second edition of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and FM: Advanced ZFS, so: what’s different.

The old stuff still works, but OpenZFS has grown many features in the last ten years. The OpenZFS project now considers Linux a tier-one platform. RaidZ arrays can be expanded. ZFS rewrite. Rebalancing arrays. Native encryption. Compressed ARC. Deduplication is less useless. Even compression has changed. Gobs of stuff.

This edition will be published as a single volume.