ZFS Design: Copy-on-Write, Checksums and the Write Hole

Deirdré Straughan · Talk · 1 h 1 min · 2012 · YouTube title: ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1

Why it's here

HN recommends it as the definitive explanation of ZFS design straight from its inventors, with war stories about data integrity.

What it covers

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.