Self-paced + mentor checkpoints · 5 weeks · self-paced core
Filesystems & Mount Discipline
Mount options, quotas, and integrity checks with repeatable verification steps.
BRL 720 · informational only
Responsible mentor
Rafael Mota
Systems mentor who prefers diagrams drawn from real outage notes.
Program narrative
Practice creating resilient mount units, interpreting df/disk output under stress, and pairing snapshots with maintenance windows. You keep a lab notebook the mentors annotate.
Included drills
- Hands-on ext4/xfs comparison tasks
- Mount unit drafting with peer review
- Integrity check drills with intentional faults
- Quota scenarios for shared lab volumes
- Nightly async Q&A thread monitored by mentors
- Template for documenting mount changes
- Risk callouts for live production parallels
Outcomes we expect you to evidence
- Produce a mount change plan peers can follow
- Spot misleading free-space signals faster
- Pair snapshots with rollback language for stakeholders
FAQ for this track
We introduce NFS client basics only; full SAN architecture is out of scope.
Experience notes
“Filesystems & Mount Discipline made me write down inode math I used to ignore; the mentor doodles on my PDFs were oddly memorable.”
— Camila Rocha , Junior admin · Google · 4/5
“Still wish the NFS appendix had one more scenario, but the quota lab alone justified the time.”
— Anonymous learner