[announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday: Ike Levy on ZFS

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

July 3, Wednesday 645 PM
Suspenders Restaurant & Bar
111 Broadway above Trinity Church

zfs(8), More Proof UNIX is Dead, Isaac (.ike) Levy

"This (ZFS) is definately one of the most exciting things for me to see
happening."
- 2007, Kirk McKusick, original author of the UFS/FFS Filesystem

Six years of use is enough time for this presenter to trust a new
filesystem.

The aim of this talk is to provide enough information to dive right into
using ZFS, professionally and personally. This presentation assumes
basic UNIX knowledge, and a mind ready to be blown.

The Zettabyte File System (ZFS) is a combined filesystem and logical
volume manager. Originally designed by Sun Microsystems, pjd@ ported ZFS
to FreeBSD over 6 years ago. The features of ZFS include protection
against data corruption, support for high storage capacities,
integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management,
snapshots and copy-on-writeclones, continuous integrity checking and
automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs.

And that's not even the fun stuff...

Have you ever wanted to just add a disk to grow a RAID volume?
Have you ever wanted to choose to boot from a particular snapshot of a
volume?
Have you ever wanted to change filesystem settings on a live mounted
volume, like atime or readonly?
Have you ever waited while your life slips away while formatting
multi-TB disks?
Have you ever needed to dynamically change the hard limits of a logical
disk partition?
Have you ever dreamed of block-level disk compression, to actually put
all those fast CPU cores to *some* use?
Have you ever wanted filesystems to perform atomic acrobatics like great
database systems can?

This presentation aims to provide a solid overview of:

    ZFS core features
    ZFS practical usage, from laptops to mammoth file storage
    Some modern SATA "gotchas" will be covered
    ZFS advanced/special uses, and paths to follow outside this talk
    The general state of ZFS on FreeBSD, (and other projects)

About the speaker:

.ike has been using ZFS, for big and small, since it first hit FreeBSD.
Today in ike's professional life, his team is responsible for many racks
of servers booting on ZFS volumes (Solaris).

Ike has spent more than 15 years obsessed with high-availability systems
on the internet. Lucky to stand on the shoulders of UNIX giants, his
background includes partnering to run an early Virtual Server ISP
(before there was a cloud), as well as having a long history standing up
internet-facing applications on UNIX systems and networks.

.ike has been a part of NYC*BUG since it was first launched in January
2004. He was a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User
Group, and is still in denial that this group no longer exists. He has
spoken frequently on a number of UNIX and internet security topics at
various venues, particularly on the issue of FreeBSD`s jail(8), (a
presentation now banned on several continents). .ike also likes POSIX
shell programming, ssh, and digitizes rare books for fun.