FreeBSD includes many special-purpose filesystems to address any number of use cases. 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.

Freebsd Mastery: Specialty Filesystems

Michael W. Lucas

Tilted Windmill Press

ZFS improves everything about systems administration. Once you peek under the hood, though, ZFS’ bewildering array of knobs and tunables can overwhelm anyone. ZFS experts can make their servers zing—and now you can, too, with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS. 
This small book teaches you to: • Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks boring • Delegate filesystem privileges to users • Containerize ZFS datasets with jails • 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 international datacenters, simplify your storage with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.

Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs

Computers & Technology

Allan Jude

Networking & Cloud Computing

OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard in the world. It is based on PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) as originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. The OpenPGP protocol defines standard formats for encrypted messages, signatures, and certificates for exchanging public keys.
PGP &amp; GPG is an easy-to read, informal tutorial for implementing electronic privacy on the cheap using the standard tools of the email privacy field - commercial PGP and non-commercial GnuPG (GPG). The book shows how to integrate these OpenPGP implementations into the most common email clients and how to use PGP and GPG in daily email correspondence to both send and receive encrypted email.
The PGP &amp; GPG book is written for the moderately skilled computer user who is unfamiliar with public key cryptography but who is nevertheless interested in guarding their email privacy. Lucas's trademark informal and relaxed tone makes public key cryptography as simple and clear as possible, so that any reasonably savvy computer user can understand it.

PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid

No Starch Pr

FreeBSD—the powerful, flexible, and free Unix-like operating system—is the preferred server for many enterprises. But it can be even trickier to use than either Unix or Linux, and harder still to master.
 Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; a true product of his love for FreeBSD and the support of the FreeBSD community. Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition covers installation, networking, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, filesystems, SMP, upgrading, crash debugging, and much more, including coverage of how to:
<ul>
<li>Use advanced security features like packet filtering, virtual machines, and host-based intrusion detection</li>
<li>Build custom live FreeBSD CDs and bootable flash</li>
<li>Manage network services and filesystems</li>
<li>Use DNS and set up email, IMAP, web, and FTP services for both servers and clients</li>
<li>Monitor your system with performance-testing and troubleshooting tools</li>
<li>Run diskless systems</li>
<li>Manage schedulers, remap shared libraries, and optimize your system for your hardware and your workload</li>
<li>Build custom network appliances with embedded FreeBSD</li>
<li>Implement redundant disks, even without special hardware</li>
<li>Integrate FreeBSD-specific SNMP into your network management system.</li>
</ul>
Whether you're just getting started with FreeBSD or you've been using it for years, you'll find this book to be the definitive guide to FreeBSD that you've been waiting for.

Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition

Web Development & Design

Cisco routers and switches are the cornerstones of many networks. But when things break, repairs can intimidate even the most competent administrator. Luckily, just knowing the "in case of emergency" basics will take you far.
 Just like the original, this second edition of the highly acclaimed Cisco Routers for the Desperate is written for the administrator in crisis mode. Updated to cover switches and the latest Cisco terminology, with a tighter focus on the needs of the small network administrator, this second edition gives you what you need to know to provide reliable network services and fix problems fast. You'll find coverage of:
 <ul>
<li>Installation—how to get your router and network connections up and running right the first time</li>
<li>Troubleshooting routers and switches, so that you can determine whether your hardware or the Internet is broken</li>
<li>Security concerns, like how to keep your network equipment safe from hackers and install a private network between two offices</li>
<li>How to implement basic network redundancy to reduce the risk of network downtime</li>
</ul>
 Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition is designed to be read once and left alone until something breaks. When it does, you'll have everything you need to know in one easy-to-follow guidebook.

Cisco Routers for the Desperate: Router and Switch Management, the Easy Way

No Starch Press

This straightforward, practical, and complete guide to mastering the powerful and complex OpenBSD operating system, is for the experienced UNIX user who wants to add OpenBSD to his or her repertoire. The author assumes a knowledge of basic UNIX commands, design, and permissions. The book takes you through the intricacies of the platform and teaches how to manage your system, offering friendly explanations, background information, troubleshooting suggestions, and copious examples throughout.

Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid

Operating Systems

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