132: A Monstrous Heap of Redirections
I’m pushing to complete a first draft of OpenZFS Mastery in the next few weeks. Here’s a bit on ZFS and lightweight virtual machines.
Lightweight virtualization like Linux containers, Illumos zones, and FreeBSD jails are the most efficient way to isolate virtual systems from the host. Rather than making the virtual machine deploy its own networking stack, memory cache, and filesystem, the main host’s kernel handles those tasks and reduces the virtual machine to an isolated process space. Some applications either need to control the filesystem or can benefit from controlling the…
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