On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:17:47AM -0700, Praveen Mogili wrote: > S10 and ZFS is opensource is great but If there is > some solid material with technical details....I would > really appreciate it.
The ZFS on-disk file format is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformatfinal.pdf Then there's the OpenSolaris ZFS Community page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/;jsessionid=4BE8172D3E39F7C503128486AB5E6052 which includes quite a bit of information or links to it. A Google search for "ZFS" in the blogs.sun.com site, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=zfs+site%3Ablogs.sun.com&btnG=Search reveals a wealth of information in many blog entries. The history of filesystems is fairly long. The BSD 4.4 Log Structured Filesystem, in particular, going back to the mid-to-late `80s, is very interesting; COW (copy-on-write), transactions, and decoupling the location of writes from the type of data being written (data vs. meta-data) goes back to the BSD 4.4 LFS and probably earlier, as these were hot topics in the world of databases back then. Cheers, Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
