Information about the author Michael W. Lucas is a network and security engineer with extensive experience working with high-availability systems. He is a regular speaker and lecturer at system administrator conferences across the United States and the author of the highly acclaimed books Absolute BSD, Absolute OpenBSD, Cisco Routers for the Desperate, and PGP & GPG, all published by No Starch Press. This updated edition of Michael W. Lucas' authoritative work on FreeBSD-based systems expands coverage of modern hard drives, the ZFS file system, IPv6, redesigned jail and packaging systems, as well as virtualization, among many new features added over the past 10 years. FreeBSD is the driving force behind companies like Netflix and EMC. Wherever heavy lifting is done on the Internet, you will find FreeBSD. This newly revised edition of Absolute FreeBSD brings the strengths of FreeBSD to your challenges.