Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]> wrote:

> At the OpenZFS Leadership Meeting this week, we discussed updating the 
> on-disk format spec given the many new on-disk features, several of which 
> make changes or extensions to old data structures (e.g. the block pointer, 
> spacemaps).  Would anyone be interested in taking on this work?  We could 
> start with the old "ZFS On-Disk Specification" from Sun, convert it to a 
> format that's more easily collaborated on, and then add the newer on-disk 
> features.  There's lots of comments in the code that could be lifted into 
> this document to explain how things work, as well.
>
> I have a copy of the old "ZFS On-Disk Specification" in odf format (thanks to 
> Andreas), and confirmed that it opens with OpenOffice 4.  The license for it 
> is the "Berkeley 
> License<https://web.archive.org/web/20060112125517/http://developers.sun.com/berkeley_license.html>"
>  (thanks Paul), which allows us to modify/redistribute the document.  I've 
> created a new repo with the document.
>
> GitHub repo: https://github.com/ahrens/zfsondisk

Thank you, I'll have a look at it - BTW: it opens with LibreOffice5...

I would need it for a Lecture in a few weeks, so I'll come back if there are 
questions.

Jörg

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