next book(s): FreeBSD storage

I’m writing about FreeBSD disk and storage management. (The folks on my mailing list already knew this.) For the last few months, I’ve been trying to assimilate and internalize GEOM.

I’ve always used GEOM in a pretty straightforward: decide what I want to achieve, read a couple man pages, find an archived discussion where someone achieved my goal, blindly copy their commands, and poof! I have deployed an advanced GEOM feature. GEOM was mostly for developers who invented cool new features.

Turns...