If you didn't attend or haven't viewed the CommunityOne presentation by Ben Rockwood on ZFS, then take some time to tune into a replay of his talk. The nearly two-hour webcast is a thorough examination of the ZFS file system.

Rockwood describes ZFS as:

• a powerful integrated storage sub-system
• transactional Copy-on-Write, always consistent on disk (no fsck)
• scalable, 128-bit
• fully checksummed
• revolutionary and modern
• memory-lover as well as an SSD one, and uses them well

The talk covers the basics, but Rockwood delves into the subject matter more than many other presentations on the topic. It is directed at beginners as well as individuals who are familiar with ZFS but don't consider themselves quite experts. In the piece, he covers:

• Physical side: pools, RAID, maintenance
• Virtual side: datasets and properties
• Time and Space: snapshots, clones, replication
• NFS, CIFS, iSCSI
• Internals and tuning
• NDMP, COMSTAR, etc.

"These talks focused on creating a firm understanding of core functionality and then briefly discussed higher level functionality," Rockwood writes. "Lots of time was spent on pool construction and physical layout, as those areas are often overlooked."

Visit Rockwood's blog where the presentation and slide deck are located for more on this talk.

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