The ZFS Filesystem

Explore the ZFS filesystem in this comprehensive conference talk from linux.conf.au 2020. Dive into the history, features, and administration of ZFS, covering topics such as filesystem reliability, snapshots, and volume management. Learn about pooled storage, copy-on-write transactions, and data integrity through disk and block checksums. Discover how to create and manage storage pools, work with mirrored disks and RAID-Z groups, and utilize ZFS concepts like datasets, properties, and quotas. Gain insights into self-healing data, compression, and snapshots. Watch a live demonstration of ZFS in action, including handling corrupted disks and NFS issues. Suitable for both beginners and experienced users, this talk provides a thorough overview of ZFS and its future directions in just 44 minutes.

Introduction
History of ZFS
What does ZFS do
Integrity
Disk checksums
Block checksums
Storage architecture
Pooled storage
Copyonwrite transactions
ZFS administration
Storage pools
Using disks directly
ZFS has concepts
Pool status
Pool IO stats
Destruction
Multiple disks
Mirrored disks
Raid Zed groups
Data sets
Properties
Noexec
Userdefined properties
Quotas
Reservations
Compression
Snapshots
Selfhealing data
Demo
NFS goes
Good news
Everything is fine
Corrupted disks
Outputs