Overview of the ZFS File System

Watch Bill Moore, Lead ZFS Engineer, explain ZFS design and features

Overview and Design
  • Overview
  • The Trouble with Filesystems
  • Objective, Design Principles
  • Why Volumes Exist
  • FS/Volume Model
Data Integrity
  • Data Integrity Model
  • Copy-On-Write Transactions
  • Constant Time Snapshots
  • End-to-End Checksums
  • Mirroring
  • Self Healing Data
  • RAID 4, RAID 5 and RAID-Z
  • Disk Scrubbing
Scalability and Performance
  • Scalability
  • Performance
  • Dynamic Striping
  • Intelligent Pre-Fetch
Administration
  • Administration
  • Creating Pools and Filesystems
  • Setting Properties
  • Snapshots
  • Clones
  • Data Migration
  • Data Security
 
 
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