NYLUG: Talk on ZFS on Linux

NYLUG: Talk on ZFS on Linux

Abstract:

Older file systems were based upon 32 bit UFS (UNIX File System) technologies, which lasted about 10 years, but started becoming tight with modern storage. Sun had produced a modern file system to last the next 10 years - it was called ZFS. ZFS is a 128 bit file system, created by Sun Microsystems, who was acquired by Oracle Corporation, is the primary active maintainer, and feature record of reference. ZFS was open sourced with OpenSolaris and other Open Source distributions started to use it, including Illumos. Eventually, Linux started to leverage ZFS. This talk is by Paul Zuchowski with a little bit of information regarding ZFS on Linux.

New York Linux User Group:

Paul Zuchowski is a former Sun Microsystems engineer. I became aware of him when he left a comment on a blog that I followed, He recently gave a talk at the NYLUG in April 2019 regarding the current state of ZFS on Linux. Many of the features, which are currently in the Oracle Solaris 11 release of ZFS are being actively worked on, in order to catch up, in the Linux Community.

Conclusions:

While some performance problems engineered by Oracle for Solaris based ZFS features may not even be a sparkle in the Linux community's eye, they are actively trying to find solutions. Hundreds of PB's of storage is currently contained in ZFS on Linux, just with a couple of companies, so clearly ZFS under Linux is mainstream enough for production use.