Webinar Overview
Join Allan Jude, Co-founder and Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., and Jim Salter, Creator of Sanoid and Co-host of the 2.5 Admins Podcast, for a festive wrap-up to the year with The 12 Days of ZFS.
In this special session, they will share twelve practical tips, tricks, and hidden gems that help you get the most out of ZFS—from performance tuning and troubleshooting to snapshots and replication.
Think of it as a stocking full of sysadmin treats: useful insights you can put to work right away, plus a look at what’s coming next for ZFS in the new year.
What You’ll Learn:
- Managing a free space reserve
- Expanding snapshot retention using bookmarks
- Where is all of this activity coming from
- Leaving breadcrumbs for your future self
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM EST
Duration: 50 minutes.
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Meet the Hosts

Co-Founder and Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A core ZFS developer, FreeBSD contributor, and author of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, Allan is a community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through. He enjoys spending his time improving ZFS, advancing FreeBSD, and making open source code better.
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Jim Salter (@jrssnet) is an author, public speaker, mercenary sysadmin, and father of three—not necessarily in that order. He got his first real taste of open source by running Apache on his very own dedicated FreeBSD 3.1 server back in 1999, and he’s been a fierce advocate of FOSS ever since. He’s the author of the Sanoid hyperconverged infrastructure project and co-host of the 2.5 Admins podcast.
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