"Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many features鈥攕napshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so on鈥攚hile 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."
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路 The Buffer Cache
路 Why you need swap, and how to live with it
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路 The Network File System
路 iSCSI
路 Software RAID
路 Encrypted filesystems
路 Encrypted installs
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