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Talk - FreeBSD/ZFS - Last word in operating/file systems

Abstract

The ZFS file system was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and was first available in the Solaris 10 operating system. The ZFS file system made a revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) step forward in file system design. ZFS authors claim that they threw away 20 years of obsolete assumptions and designed an integrated system from scratch.

The ZFS file system was ported and recently committed to the FreeBSD operating system and will be available in 7.0-RELEASE.

This presentation is split into three pieces:

1. Presentation of ZFS itself, its great features, what problems ZFS solves and what makes it so unique on file systems market.
2. Discussion about author's porting efforts, FreeBSD modifications, some performance numbers, FreeBSD-specific features and future goals.
3. Life presentation of ZFS on FreeBSD.

Speaker

Pawel Jakub Dawidek is a FreeBSD committer. In the FreeBSD project he works mostly in the storage subsystems area (GEOM, file systems), security (disk encryption, opencrypto framework, IPsec, jails), but his code is also in many other parts of the system. Pawel currently lives in Warsaw, Poland, running his small company.