Documentation
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General Documentation aimed at users / system administrators
- manual pages
- from illumos; better-rendered pages would be appreciated
- zpool zfs zpool-features zdb zstreamdump
- Oracle's ZFS Administration Guide is largely applicable
- slides from a ZFS overview at SNIA 2008
- Seems applicable to most platforms, but maybe getting out-of-date:
Distribution-Specific User Documentation
FreeBSD
- manual pages: zpool zfs zpool-features zdb zstreamdump
- ZFS page in The FreeBSD Handbook
- FreeBSD ZFS Wiki
Other
- Links to user documentation (distribution)
Do we want this here or should this just be part of the links to other distributions?
Implementation Documentation aimed at developers
- The ZFS On-Disk Format document is a good overview, although sorely out of date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
- Architectural/high-level documentation about ZFS as a whole
- We should collaborate on this with a wiki before the launch
- Might also have a common set of documentation that can be used for all distributions as a starting point and just modified
- Documentation/ZfsSend
Matt, George, Chris Siden, and Max are working on writing the architectural/high-level documentation. We probably need to think about the common user documentation.
Repo-Specific Developer Documentation
- 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