Contributors

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ZFS Experts

The following people have volunteered to be resources help answer questions in their specific areas of expertise. The mailing list is also a general resource for code-related questions. Individuals listed alphabetically by last name:

Please add yourself here with a sentence about your experience with ZFS, a sentence about your areas of expertise, and a link to how to contact you (could be via your User: page on this site).

  • Matt Ahrens
    • Co-founded the ZFS project at Sun in 2001; designed & implemented many features including snapshot & clones, send and receive, scrub/resilver.
    • Broad knowledge of ZFS, but most expertise in DMU, DSL, and ZAP.
  • Will Andrews
    • Spectra Logic & FreeBSD ZFS team member since November 2011, minor role in the OS X port since late 2012.
    • Primary areas of focus are in DMU & ZVOL, involving I/O performance, bug fixes, & portability.
  • Brian Behlendorf
    • ZFS on Linux maintainer; implemented the SPL and adapted ZFS for the Linux kernel.
    • Broad knowledge of Linux kernel internals and ZFS in general.
  • Justin T. Gibbs
    • Member of Spectra Logic's team working on ZFS enhancements, including Optimizing ZFS for Block Storage
    • Broad knowledge of FreeBSD internals, FreeBSD's integration of ZFS, and the DMU and vdev layers.
  • Jorgen Lundman
    • Added ZFS support to U-Boot and initial ZFS on Linux port to ARM.
    • Working on ZFS on Linux port to Apple OS X zfs-osx
  • Martin Matuska
    • FreeBSD ZFS team member since 2010; keeping FreeBSD in sync with illumos and fixing small bugs
    • Most expertise in porting of illumos changes to FreeBSD
  • Chris Siden
    • Implemented zpool feature flags and background destroy of filesystems.
    • Most expertise in Feature Flags, ztest, and illumos development process.
  • George Wilson
    • ZFS developer since 2005; implemented single-copy ARC and many SPA-layer performance enhancements.
    • Most expertise in SPA (space maps, ZIO pipeline, block allocation, etc), ARC, and corrupt pool recovery.
  • Richard Yao
    • The Gentoo Linux ZFS maintainer since January 2012; many miscellaneous improvements to Linux port
    • Most expertise in Linux integration and ZFS on Linux development process.
  • Aron Xu
    • Work on ZFS on Linux support in Debian as co-maintainer.

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  • Chris Brown: Scientific Linux
  • Pawel Dawidek (FreeBSD)
  • Justin Gibbs: President, FreeBSD Foundation
  • Darik Horn: Ubuntu
  • Ken Merry: FreeBSD
  • Aron Xu: Debian