FreeBSD Mastery:ZFS
Michael W Lucas
Allan Jude
Praise for other books by Michael W Lucas
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials
“If you’re a FreeBSD (or Linux, or Unix) sysadmin, then you need this
book; it has a lot of hard-won knowledge, and will save your butt more
than you’ll be comfortable admitting. If you’ve read anything else by
Lucas, you also know we need him writing more books. Do the right
thing and buy this now.” – Slashdot
“There’s plenty of coverage of GEOM, GELI, GDBE, and the other
technologies specific to FreeBSD. I for one did not know how GEOM
worked, with its consumer/producer model – and I imagine it’s
complex to dive into when you’ve got a broken machine next to you. If
you are administering FreeBSD systems, especially ones that deal with
dedicated storage, you will find this useful.” — DragonFlyBSD Digest
Networking for Systems Administrators
“There is a lot of useful information packed into this book. I recom-
mend it!”—Sunday Morning Linux Review, episode 145
After reading this book, you’ll have a strong footing in networking.
Lucas explains concepts in practical ways; he makes sure to teach tools
in both Unix/Linux and Windows; and he gives you the terms you’ll
use to explain what you’re seeing to the network folks. Along the way
there’s a lot of hard-won knowledge sprinkled throughout…” – Slash-
dot
Sudo Mastery
“It’s awesome, it’s Lucas, it’s sudo. Buy it now.” – Slashdot
“Michael W Lucas has always been one of my favorite authors because
he brings exceptional narrative to information that has the potential
to be rather boring. Sudo Mastery is no exception.” – Chris Sanders,
author of Practical Packet Analysis
Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition
“Michael Lucas has done it again.” – cryptednets.org
“After 13 years of using OpenBSD, I learned something new and
useful!” – Peter Hessler, OpenBSD Journal
“This is truly an excellent book. It’s full of essential material on
OpenBSD presented with a sense of humor and an obvious deep
knowledge of how this OS works. If you’re coming to this book from
a Unix background of any kind, you’re going to find what you need
to quickly become fluent in OpenBSD – both how it works and how
to manage it with expertise. I doubt that a better book on OpenBSD
could be written.” — Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITWorld.com
“It quickly becomes clear that Michael actually uses OpenBSD and is
not a hired gun with a set word count to satisfy... In short, this is not
a drive-by book and you will not find any hand waving.” – Michael
Dexter, callfortesting.org
DNSSEC Mastery
“When Michael descends on a topic and produces a book, you can
expect the result to contain loads of useful information, presented
along with humor and real-life anecdotes so you will want to explore
the topic in depth on your own systems.” — Peter Hansteen, author of
The Book of PF
“Pick up this book if you want an easy way to dive into DNSSEC.” —
psybermonkey.net
SSH Mastery
“…one of those technical books that you wouldn’t keep on your
bookshelf. It’s one of the books that will have its bindings bent, and
many pages bookmarked sitting near the keyboard.” — Steven K Hicks,
SKH:TEC
“…SSH Mastery is a title that Unix users and system administrators
like myself will want to keep within reach…” — Peter Hansteen, author
of The Book of PF
“This stripping-down of the usual tech-book explanations gives it
the immediacy of extended documentation on the Internet. Not the
multipage how-to articles used as vehicles for advertising, but an in-
depth presentation from someone who used OpenSSH to do a number
of things, and paid attention while doing it.” — DragonFlyBSD Digest
Network Flow Analysis
“Combining a great writing style with lots of technical info, this book
provides a learning experience that’s both fun and interesting. Not too
many technical books can claim that.” — ;login: Magazine, October
2010
“This book is worth its weight in gold, especially if you have to deal
with a shoddy ISP who always blames things on your network.” —
Utahcon.com
“The book is a comparatively quick read and will come in handy when
troubleshooting and analyzing network problems.” —Dr. Dobbs
“Network Flow Analysis is a pick for any library strong in network
administration and data management. It’s the first to show system
administrators how to assess, analyze and debut a network using
flow analysis, and comes from one of the best technical writers in the
networking and security environments.” — Midwest Book Review
Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition
“I am happy to say that Michael Lucas is probably the best
system administration author I’ve read. I am amazed that he can
communicate top-notch content with a sense of humor, while not
offending the reader or sounding stupid. When was the last time you
could physically feel yourself getting smarter while reading a book? If
you are a beginning to average FreeBSD user, Absolute FreeBSD 2nd
Ed (AF2E) will deliver that sensation in spades. Even more advanced
users will find plenty to enjoy.” — Richard Bejtlich, CSO, MANDIANT,
and TaoSecurity blogger
“Master practitioner Lucas organizes features and functions to make
sense in the development environment, and so provides aid and
comfort to new users, novices, and those with significant experience
alike.” — SciTech Book News
“…reads well as the author has a very conversational tone, while giving
you more than enough information on the topic at hand. He drops
in jokes and honest truths, as if you were talking to him in a bar.” —
Technology and Me Blog
Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition
“If only Cisco Routers for the Desperate had been on my bookshelf
a few years ago! It would have definitely saved me many hours of
searching for configuration help on my Cisco routers.” — Blogcritics
Magazine
“For me, reading this book was like having one of the guys in my
company who lives and breathes Cisco sitting down with me for a day
and explaining everything I need to know to handle problems or issues
likely to come my way. There may be many additional things I could
potentially learn about my Cisco switches, but likely few I’m likely to
encounter in my environment.” — IT World
“This really ought to be the book inside every Cisco Router box for the
very slim chance things go goofy and help is needed ‘right now.’“ —
MacCompanion
Absolute OpenBSD
“My current favorite is Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical
Paranoid by Michael W. Lucas from No Starch Press. Anyone should
be able to read this book, download OpenBSD, and get it running as
quickly as possible.” — Infoworld
“I recommend Absolute OpenBSD to all programmers and
administrators working with the OpenBSD operating system (OS), or
considering it.” — UnixReview
“Absolute OpenBSD by Michael Lucas is a broad and mostly gentle
introduction into the world of the OpenBSD operating system. It is
sufficiently complete and deep to give someone new to OpenBSD
a solid footing for doing real work and the mental tools for further
exploration… The potentially boring topic of systems administration
is made very readable and even fun by the light tone that Lucas uses.”
— Chris Palmer, President, San Francisco OpenBSD Users Group
PGP & GPG
“...The World’s first user-friendly book on email privacy...unless you’re
a cryptographer, or never use email, you should read this book.” — Len
Sassaman, CodeCon Founder
“An excellent book that shows the end-user in an easy to read and
often entertaining style just about everything they need to know to
effectively and properly use PGP and OpenPGP.” — Slashdot
“PGP & GPG is another excellent book by Michael Lucas. I thoroughly
enjoyed his other books due to their content and style. PGP & GPG
continues in this fine tradition. If you are trying to learn how to use
PGP or GPG, or at least want to ensure you are using them properly,
read PGP & GPG.” — TaoSecurity
Tarsnap Mastery
“If you use any nix-type system, and need offsite backups, then you
need Tarsnap. If you want to use Tarsnap efficiently, you need Tarsnap
Mastery.” –Sunday Morning Linux Review episode 148
Praise for Allan Jude
“[Cloud vs bare metal] is all about tradeoffs and understanding your
requirements. Allan’s BSDCan talk from a few years ago was great.” —
Simon L. B. Nielsen, Google SRE
“Allan’s work on the ZFS section of the handbook was really helpful
and severely reduced the need for Googling things.” — Marie Helene
Kvello-Aune, FreeBSD/ZFS User
FreeBSD Mastery:
ZFS
Michael W Lucas
Allan Jude