This sounds interesting...

[davidschroth]

...at least to this geek...



Please join the IEEE Computer Society chapter of the Twin Cities
Section for our second technical meeting of the year at TAJ Technologies,
including Pizza and a presentation on the open source file system from Sun
Microsystems, the “ZFS (Zettabyte File System).” The presentation will be given
by Aaron Brendel, and David Paschall-Zimbel from Collier Computing Company.


Aaron and David will be covering:
* What is ZFS
* How is ZFS used
* Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages over other file systems
* Things to keep in mind so you don't shoot yourself in the foot
* Demo of ZFS use


Where:
TAJ Technologies, Inc.
1168 Northland Drive
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
(Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1168+Northland+Drive,+Mendota+Heights)


When: Tuesday, 29 April, 2008, 18:00 ­ 19:30


Aaron Brendel is a senior systems engineer for the Collier Computing Company.
With over thirteen years experience in managing Sun Solaris systems, Aaron is
an experienced administrator who’s areas of expertise are in server
virtualization, thin client technology, and OS and hardware architecture.
Aaron is a Sun Certified Data Center Engineer and Instructor, teaching general
system administration curriculum as well as ZFS and Zones courses.


David Paschall-Zimbel is a senior technical consultant for the Collier
Computing Company. His areas of expertise include Solaris 10, ZFS file
systems, Solaris Containers (Zones) and Sun Cluster systems. While most of his
time is focused on providing professional services for Sun customers, he also
serves as a mentor for Solaris 10 technologies and teaches advanced Sun Cluster
classes.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

ZFS is very cool; I'm running Solaris on my home fileserver specifically so I can use ZFS for my files. There was a fair amount of learning curve, since I was really mostly back in the SunOS days and the big switch to Solaris/SysV happened when I wasn't looking, but it's been behaving very well.

I doubt I'll make the presentation though; distance/time not really compatible with current work schedule, and while I'm sure I'd learn things, I do already have a usable system in production.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Blessed cut tag.

K.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Blessed cut tag.

...works a whole lot better when I start it with the correct string of characters (hint - "." is not an acceptable substitute for ">")

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice that part.

K.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I did, presumably before you encountered it's original incarnation...