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Welcome to OpenZFS

OpenZFS was announced in September 2013 as the truly open source successor to the ZFS project. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X platforms, and a wide range of companies that build products on top of OpenZFS.

OpenZFS is an outstanding storage platform that encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume managers, and more, with consistent reliability, functionality and performance across all distributions:

illumos	Webpage	GitHub
FreeBSD	Webpage	GitHub
ZFS on Linux	Webpage	GitHub
ZFS-OSX	MacZFS	GitHub

Goals

The high-level goals of OpenZFS are:

• to raise awareness of the quality, utility, and availability of open source implementations of ZFS
• to encourage open communication about ongoing efforts to improve open source ZFS
• to ensure consistent reliability, functionality, and performance of all distributions of ZFS.

The main technical goal of OpenZFS is easier sharing of code between platforms. Strategies include:

• creating a platform-independent mailing list for developers to review ZFS code and architecture changes from all platforms
• smoothing the illumos integration process
• making it easy to run both ztest and the ZFS test suite (TestRunner or STF based) on each platform
• reducing code differences between the platforms.

What's new?

October: video of Matt Ahrens' talk at NOSIG.

November: video and slides from the OpenZFS Developer Summit.

December 2013: video of the second OpenZFS Office Hours, hosted by George Wilson.

Site orientation

• FAQ
• How to participate
• Companies with products that are based on OpenZFS
• Download distributions that include OpenZFS
• Events – the forthcoming OpenZFS Developer Summit and more
• Developer resources
  • mailing list
  • illumos integration process
  • contributors
  • platform code differences
  • OpenZFS Office Hours
  • implementation
    • ZFS send
    • administrative commands
• Documentation
  • features
  • publications and conference talks
  • history – from ZFS to OpenZFS
    • OpenZFS launch announcement – September 2013
  • performance tuning
• Projects
  • reduce code differences
  • the ZFS Channel Programs (ZCP) proposal
• About OpenZFS

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