ZFS for Everyone

ZFS was originally released into the open source community as part of OpenSolaris in November 2005. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, the focus on maintaining an open source community quickly diminished and in August 2010, the public releases of ZFS source code silently stopped. At the same time, a new community was emerging and Open ZFS was born. The Open ZFS community is now flourishing with new features being developed across a variety of platforms. This talk will go into the technical details of some the features in Open ZFS and how administrators can utilize each of them.

George Wilson is a software engineer at Delphix, working on filesystems for Delphix's database storage appliance. At Delphix, George has worked on ZFS features such as single-copy arc, nop writes, and performance enhancements for pools with imbalanced LUNS. Before joining Delphix, George was a senior member of the ZFS kernel development team at Sun Microsytems, working on key features such as LUN expansion, Log Device removal, and Deduplication. He was also the tech lead for the Solaris 10 ZFS integration and developed an in-depth ZFS training course for Sun's field organization.