"Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many featuresâsnapshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so onâwhile all UFS has ever done is muck about putting data on disk. But, conversely, UFS users believe their filesystem is better for exactly the same reasons." âHitchhikers Guide to OpenBSD
Disk management is the core of system administration. Nobody can tell you how large that database is going to grow or how many files that archive must eventually support, but for everything else thereâs OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. This guide takes you through the latest in OpenBSD storage management, including:
¡ OpenBSDâs cross-platform storage stack
¡ MBR, GPT, and disklabel partitions
¡ The Unix File System
¡ Growing, removing, and repairing filesystems
¡ Memory file systems
¡ The Buffer Cache
¡ Why you need swap, and how to live with it
¡ Coping with FAT, NTFS, EXT, and more
¡ The Network File System
¡ iSCSI
¡ Software RAID
¡ Encrypted filesystems
¡ Encrypted installs
And more! Partition yourself for success and grab OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems now.
"Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many featuresâsnapshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so onâwhile all UFS has ever done is muck about putting data on disk. But, conversely, UFS users believe their filesystem is better for exactly the same reasons." âHitchhikers Guide to OpenBSD
Disk management is the core of system administration. Nobody can tell you how large that database is going to grow or how many files that archive must eventually support, but for everything else thereâs OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. This guide takes you through the latest in OpenBSD storage management, including:
¡ OpenBSDâs cross-platform storage stack
¡ MBR, GPT, and disklabel partitions
¡ The Unix File System
¡ Growing, removing, and repairing filesystems
¡ Memory file systems
¡ The Buffer Cache
¡ Why you need swap, and how to live with it
¡ Coping with FAT, NTFS, EXT, and more
¡ The Network File System
¡ iSCSI
¡ Software RAID
¡ Encrypted filesystems
¡ Encrypted installs
And more! Partition yourself for success and grab OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems now.