FreeBSD Foundationals: ZFS - The Last Filesystem You’ll Ever Need

The second in the FreeBSD Foundationals series. This one covers ZFS from philosophy to practice: why it exists, how pools and datasets work, what checksumming and self-healing actually do, how to tune recordsize, compression, and atime, how encryption works with key management, how snapshots and the hidden .zfs directory give you time travel, and how ZFS send/recv turns backup and migration into a…