Webinar Overview
Klara co-founder Allan Jude is joined by long time ZFS developer Mark Maybee to answer your questions about the history and future of OpenZFS in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) hosted by Jim Salter.
Mark worked on ZFS at Sun and Oracle, and OpenZFS on super computers at Cray (including dRAID and Direct I/O). Allan has been developing ZFS on FreeBSD and Linux for 10 years (ZStandard Compression, VDEV properties, Fast Dedup, Forced Export).
Together, they will discuss design decisions in ZFS, how to adapt to newer hardware as it changes the paradigm, and answer some of the most popular questions about OpenZFS. Join us live!
Your takeaways after the webinar:
- Insights into the key design decisions that shaped ZFS and its evolution.
- A forward-looking discussion on how to adapt OpenZFS to emerging hardware technologies.
- Answers to the most popular and pressing questions from the OpenZFS community.
Top Burning Questions from the Session—Answered!
We handpicked two of the most thought-provoking questions from the session, with expert answers from the panel:
🗨️ What are the best practices to avoid issues with encrypted replication?
Best practices include:
- Implementing automated monitoring to detect issues early
- Ensuring enough snapshots are retained to enable recovery
- Keeping a backup using an alternative method of encryption for added resilience.
🗨️ What is the best way to monitor ZFS pools?
Use tools like Nagios with custom plugins or cloud services like healthchecks.io. Focus on metrics like pool health, scrub status, and error rates. Monitoring historical data helps diagnose performance issues and preempt failures.
🗨️ What’s ZFS’s most underappreciated feature?
The checksum-based self-healing capability. ZFS detects and fixes corrupted data by comparing block checksums. This feature ensures reliability by reconstructing data from parity or mirrors, allowing administrators to pinpoint and replace faulty hardware.
Date: December 12, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Duration: 45 minutes.
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Meet the Hosts
Principal Solutions Architect and co-Founder of 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 community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through, Allan enjoys spending his time improving on ZFS, FreeBSD and making open source code better.
Learn About Klara
Mark Maybee is an Experienced Senior Software Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is a highly skilled engineering professional with expertise in scalability, storage, file systems, and kernel development. Mark was a member of the original ZFS design and development team at Sun Microsystems and eventually became a lead architect for the ZFS storage appliance team at Oracle.
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