Developer resources

Ways to contact people

• ZFS experts
• Mailing list
• IRC: #openzfs on freenode
• Twitter: @openzfs
• Office hours: rotating the leader/owner
• Pointers to other mailing lists and repos?

Ongoing work

• Test framework
• One of our goals is to reduce code differences.
  • List of platform code differences
• Projects
  • ZFS Channel Programs

Implementation Documentation

• Links to source code are on the Distributions page
• Architectural/high-level documentation about general OpenZFS concepts
  • ZFS Send
  • Administrative Commands (e.g. zfs snapshot -r pool/fs@snap)

Links to documentation on other websites:

• The ZFS On-Disk Format document is a good overview, although sorely out of date
• The source tour describes the various subcomponents in ZFS.
• Blog posts on specific ZFS features
  • snapshots
  • scrub/resilver
  • ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)
  • space maps and block allocation
  • Hot spares
  • Deduplication
  • RAID-Z
  • L2ARC

Repo-Specific Developer Documentation

• Illumos integration process
• Information about how to develop ZFS for the different distributions/pointers to them (e.g., how to build illumos)
  • In particular, documentation about how to test and possibly scripts for building
  • Needs to be written/links provided by reps from those communities