[CALUG] November 13 Meeting Announcement - ZFS Overview

[Randal T. Rioux]

Nothing? That's disappointing.

Perhaps this group should be renamed CAUIUG for "Ubuntu Introductory
Users Group"? :-)

As suspected, I ended up not being in the state during this. Is there
any presentation collateral available?

Thanks

On 11/6/2013 12:08 AM, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
> Note: this email assumes Eric Sproul is on this email distribution. If
> not, Chuck, can you forward?
> 
> This is awesome, and I might actually be in town for a meeting for the
> first time in years!
> 
> I *just* converted my lab's collection of pcaps and malware (>20TB -
> used for R&D) from HW RAID5's and SW RAID10's (ext4) to all RAIDZ
> systems and I love it.
> 
> One thing that attracted me is the snapshot capability, and that I can
> set gzip-7 at the filesystem level (avg 1.18x compression right now!)
> and transfer are actually *faster* with compression on :-)
> 
> Caveat: I've only done this on Solaris and FreeBSD.
> 
> I realize this will be an introduction, but if I go I'll have some
> hardball questions. I beat the crap out of my file servers.
> 
> One quick one now if you don't mind before the talk: what is the best
> way to schedule a snapshot regimen for 1, 3, 7 and 30 days including
> destroying old ones? I see scripts and stuff on the Web, but they all
> look different and seem to over complicate things.
> 
> Tangent: can you tell us more about OmniOS (online info is scarce) and
> whether Circonus is purely commercial (appears so)?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On 11/5/2013 8:22 PM, Chuck Frain wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> The next exciting meeting of CALUG will be Wednesday November 13th from
>> 6:30 until 9PMish. Our guest speaker will be Eric Sproul giving us an
>> introduction to the ZFS file system. 
>>
>> ZFS combines the features of a filesystem, volume manager and RAID
>> subsystem into a single storage system that provides pooled storage
>> with immense capacity, provable end-to-end data integrity, snapshots,
>> transparent compression/decompression, and much more.  This talk will
>> be primarily a high-level overview of ZFS features and concepts to
>> help users and administrators understand the many benefits that ZFS
>> provides over traditional storage stacks.
>>
>> Eric Sproul is an engineer at OmniTI, where he works on OmniOS (a
>> distribution of illumos) and is responsible for release engineering
>> and deployment automation for Circonus, a SaaS platform for
>> monitoring, visualizing and alerting on IT and business data.
>>
>> The meeting will take place at OmniTI, located in Fulton, MD. The
>> address is 11830 West Market Place Fulton, MD 20759. The building is
>> near the Harris Teeter, easily seen from the road. When you approach the
>> HT head on, the OmniTI office building is to its right.
>>
>> We'll be using the back entrance which is surrounded by plants which
>> will lead directly to the meeting room.
>>
>> Be sure to show up from 6:30 until 7 for pizza provided by Praxis
>> Engineering and socializing. We'll start the meeting about 7pm.
>>
>> http://www.calug.org
>> http://www.praxiseng.com
>> http://omniti.com
>> http://omniti.com/is/here
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/esproul
>>
> 
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