Project and Community

OpenZFS is storage software which combines the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume manager, and more. OpenZFS includes protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, remote replication with ZFS send and receive, and RAID-Z.

OpenZFS brings together developers from the illumos, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X platforms, and a wide range of companies – both online and at the annual OpenZFS Developer Summit. High-level goals of the project include raising awareness of the quality, utility and availability of open-source implementations of ZFS, encouraging open communication about ongoing efforts toward improving open-source variants of ZFS, and ensuring consistent reliability, functionality and performance of all distributions of ZFS.

Contents:

• Admin Documentation
• FAQ
  • What is OpenZFS
  • Hardware Requirements
  • Do I have to use ECC memory for ZFS?
  • Installation
  • Supported Architectures
  • Supported Linux Kernels
  • 32-bit vs 64-bit Systems
  • Booting from ZFS
  • Selecting /dev/ names when creating a pool (Linux)
  • Setting up the /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf file
  • Changing /dev/ names on an existing pool
  • The /etc/zfs/zpool.cache file
  • Generating a new /etc/zfs/zpool.cache file
  • Sending and Receiving Streams
  • CEPH/ZFS
  • Performance Considerations
  • Advanced Format Disks
  • ZVOL used space larger than expected
  • Using a zvol for a swap device on Linux
  • Using ZFS on Xen Hypervisor or Xen Dom0 (Linux)
  • udisks2 creating /dev/mapper/ entries for zvol (Linux)
  • Licensing
  • Reporting a problem
  • Does OpenZFS have a Code of Conduct?
• Mailing Lists
• Signing Keys
  • Maintainers
  • Checking the Signature of a Git Tag
• Issue Tracker
• Releases
• Roadmap