Hi all,

I'd like to propose the creation of a community for technologies related
to ZFS (Zettabyte File System).

Don't get too excited-- ZFS hasn't finished the spin cycle in the
machine just yet; and no, I can't say when that will happen.  But it
would be good to have a community, and especially a mailing list ready
for the day it does become available.  ZFS (the Zettabyte File System)
is Sun's next generation filesystem, aimed at providing unparalleled
data integrity and scalability under a simplified administration model.

We know that some folks have felt "teased" about ZFS for a long time.
This is *not* an attempt to do more of that; but we do hope the
OpenSolaris community will acquiesce to the creation of this website
community so that it eventually has a home.

It may be that in the future, a larger "Data and Storage Management"
community will subsume the ZFS community, UFS community and others.
Stephen Hahn has talked about doing some reclassification of communities
into "projects" in the future-- but we don't have that capability today,
and so we're proposing a ZFS community until that day arrives.

Those wishing to learn more about what ZFS *will be* (we hope, anyway)
may wish to review the following materials:

   http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_File_System

   http://www.filibeto.org/aduritz/truetrue/solaris10/henson-self-tune.pdf

   http://blogs.sun.com/ahrens

   http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick

        -dp

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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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