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ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1

Deirdré Straughan · 19.4K views · 2012-06-12 · 1:01:27

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Overview

Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, the creators of ZFS, present 'ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems' at the 2008 SNIA Software Developers' Conference. They explain the design, including copy-on-write, checksumming and avoiding the write hole.

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HN recommends it as the definitive explanation of ZFS design straight from its inventors, with war stories about data integrity.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2016–2026

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Databases & storage
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jorangreef · 2023-11 · Strong recommendation

ZFS was an inspiration for TigerBeetle. I love this talk by Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore: “ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems” [VIDEO]

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throw0101a · 2019-10 · Strong recommendation

> Is ZFS any good? The presentation "ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems" from its debut in 2008 is a good introduction. Part 1 (of 3) probably best explains how different it is from just about anything else out there (even now, in 2019): * [VIDEO] Part 2 show some extra niceties / features, and Part 3 is a demo and Q&A. Watching Part 1 at least is worth it for anyone curious; 2 and 3 are optional.

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tnorgaard · 2016-06 · Strong recommendation

I would recommend anybody interested in filesystems to watch Jeff Bonwick (ZFS inventor) explain the design of ZFS: [VIDEO] . They have a few very nice war stories explaining why they found it useful to have the user data checksummed as well.

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