Kevin Bowling: ZFS 101
Channel: Brian Cluff
Date: 13/10/2014

Presented at the Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) on October 9th 2014 by Kevin Bowling

OpenZFS is a state of the art cross-platform filesystem for Linux, FreeBSD, Illumos, and Mac OS X.  This talk will detail how it differs from traditional UNIX file systems, the current status for the different supported operating systems, an introduction to the userland control programs, an overview of hardware considerations for system builders, and a brief look at the internal structure. 

Kevin is a systems developer at Limelight Networks and has experience with a wide range of UNIX implementations. Current interests include OS build and release engineering for large scale clusters like Limelight's FreeBSD footprint.

If you like what you see here, the Phoenix Linux Users Group meets several times a month.  Please visit http://PhxLinux.org for meeting times and come see the presentations live.

(Yes, I know the presenter is on the wrong side of the screen and keeps pointing to a screen that isn't there.  The lighting on the presenter/green screen was fairly terrible at this meeting and there was a shadow that was difficult to get rid of that kept appearing over the screen obscuring it.  Rather than spending hours getting rid of the shadow by hand I elected to simply move Kevin to the opposite side of the screen where the shadow can harmlessly fall on the background.)