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Making the ZFS file system (Interview)

Jan 18, 2022

01:30:32

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Getting Paid for Work - How Can You Contribute to Open Source?

03:58

ZFS for a Time Serious Platform?

05:55

Using a Low Level Language Like Rust

01:41

Introduction

4min

Do You Do Many Podcasts Around ZFS?

1min

What Is Ufs and What Should It Be Doing?

5min

What's the Difference Between a Dead Project and a Successful Project?

2min

Nozipes - A File System and a Volume Manager

2min

Open Source

2min

Zfese - A Distributed File System

4min

The Future of Cloud Computing, You Know?

3min

ZFS for a Time Serious Platform?

6min

10.

ZFS, I'm Not Taking Advantage of It Right Now

2min

11.

Zopes

2min

12.

How to Create a Z Pool?

4min

13.

Is the Number of Disks a Good Thing?

4min

14.

What's the Other Word?

3min

15.

How to Set a Quota and a Reservation for a File System

3min

16.

Is Copy on Right a Killer Feature?

2min

17.

Copy on Right in Zfess Is a Fundamental Enabling Thing

4min

18.

Is It a Good Idea to Fork the Data?

2min

19.

Arrayed Arrays

4min

20.

Delphic's Valle Is Open Source, So It's Easier for Me

2min

21.

Mongo Deb Atlas - The Multi Cloud Data Platform

2min

22.

Code Review

3min

23.

Is There a Killer Feature in the Effects?

2min

24.

Don't Use the Free Software License

4min

25.

The GPL Versu C Ddal Is a Weak Copy Left Type of License

2min

26.

You Don't Use the ZFS

3min

27.

Oracle Efes vs Open Source Zpes on Lennox

2min

28.

Open ZFS on the Cloud - What's Next?

2min

29.

Getting Paid for Work - How Can You Contribute to Open Source?

4min

30.

Are You Burned on ZFS?

3min

31.

Using a Low Level Language Like Rust

2min

32.

Is There a Way to Get Rid of the Fes?

4min

This week Matt Ahrens joins Adam to talk about ZFS. Matt co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001. And 20 years later Adam picked up ZFS for use in his home lab and loved it. So, he reached out to Matt and invited him on the show. They cover the origins of the file system, its journey from proprietary to open source, architecture choices like copy-on-write, the ins and outs of creating and managing ZFS, RAID-Z and RAID-Z expansion, and Matt even shares plans for ZFS in the cloud with ZFS object store.

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