FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials Paperback – November 28, 2014

This is a great FreeBSD book but also quite helpful for learning about storage in general.

This is an excellent overview of traditional disk management with FreeBSD. In due course with Michael Lucas' other work, he is clear, concise, and right to the point with everything you need. One thing to note, this does not provide in-depth coverage on ZFS. This is traditional disk management using GEOM and UFS. I believe that he is planning a ZFS book all to itself, which is probably a good idea. Excellent work here, looking forward to all of the future releases in his IT Mastery series.

Very well written and complete, as far as it goes. I really wish Mr. Lucas had included ZFS in this volume instead of making us buy the next in the series to get that information.

VERY informative! I have been using FreeBSD since 4.3 in some fashion. This book is great at bringing me from low-level stuff like gpart and geom to different flags for file system creation. Sometimes as an admin, you are rushed and do what you know is easier. You do not format or create file systems very often. Or at least I that is what I did. This book was a very welcoming read for me. It has cleared up several concepts that I thought I knew. It is my new reference books. I HIGHLY recommend this book!

Well written. Author responds to feedback. It costs about what lunch would for knowledge that lasts quite awhile. Thanks.

I am switching to FreeBSD and found Michael Lucas's book a very valuable tool in understanding how FreeBSD storage works. Well worth the money! (Disclaimer: I know Michael, but if the book weren't good, I would NOT have posted a review)

Easy to read, easy to understand and very interesting book.

As allways good