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ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1
Deirdré Straughan
Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, the creators of ZFS, present 'ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems' at the 2008 SNIA Software Developers' Conference. They explain the design, including copy-on-write, checksumming and avoiding the write hole.
HN recommends it as the definitive explanation of ZFS design straight from its inventors, with war stories about data integrity.
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