A conversation with the inventors of Sun’s ZFS

Smart dudes. 45 minutes. Talking about Sun Microsystems’ ZFS. File storage system that’s used on a ton of datacenter computers and is rumored to be used in a future version of OSX.

You know, I hope you are enjoying these conversations as much as I do. Getting to talk with some of the industry’s smartest people just is such a privilege. I pinch myself every day.

What do we discuss here? Storage trends, stories about how ZFS came about, data center trends they are seeing, and a lot more.

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Comments

  1. gwhiz says:

    Watching now. Please tell me Apple, Leopard and ZFS collide in here somewhere… You DID ask… right?

  2. gwhiz says:

    Watching now. Please tell me Apple, Leopard and ZFS collide in here somewhere… You DID ask… right?

  3. vruz says:

    is something wrong with my setup or this video can’t be detached from the webpage ?

  4. vruz says:

    is something wrong with my setup or this video can’t be detached from the webpage ?

  5. David Geller says:

    Network Appliance (netapp) isn’t too fond of Sun’s ZFS initiatives.

  6. David Geller says:

    Network Appliance (netapp) isn’t too fond of Sun’s ZFS initiatives.

  7. brad says:

    Please learn to use your equipment properly. The audio levels are horrific.

  8. brad says:

    Please learn to use your equipment properly. The audio levels are horrific.

  9. Jonathan says:

    Do you have any plans to provide transcripts for any of these? Or if you do already, publicise the link a bit more.

    I have not been able to follow any of these conversations you’ve posted up since probably the start. It’s lessened the value of your work a great deal.

  10. Jonathan says:

    Do you have any plans to provide transcripts for any of these? Or if you do already, publicise the link a bit more.

    I have not been able to follow any of these conversations you’ve posted up since probably the start. It’s lessened the value of your work a great deal.

  11. Carlos says:

    Very interesting. Enjoyed the discussion very much.
    Congrats on the good show.

  12. Carlos says:

    Very interesting. Enjoyed the discussion very much.
    Congrats on the good show.

  13. David Morris says:

    This was a really interesting video.

    Due to the recent OOXML news I’ve got more and more interested in file formats, so the way those files are stored seems like a natural extension for me.

    I’m not saying I’d ever work on developing filesystems, but the information in this video was enlightening. I barely knew anything about ZFS before I saw this.

  14. David Morris says:

    This was a really interesting video.

    Due to the recent OOXML news I’ve got more and more interested in file formats, so the way those files are stored seems like a natural extension for me.

    I’m not saying I’d ever work on developing filesystems, but the information in this video was enlightening. I barely knew anything about ZFS before I saw this.

  15. Can you share a downloadable version of this video.
    I can’t play streaming video well.

  16. Can you share a downloadable version of this video.
    I can’t play streaming video well.

  17. David Morris says:

    @Arimas Artadi – go to Robert’s page at podtech.net and you’ll find a downloadable version.

  18. David Morris says:

    @Arimas Artadi – go to Robert’s page at podtech.net and you’ll find a downloadable version.

  19. Guzzard says:

    Funny thing, my Relatives are being laid off by Sun. They were asked to train their replacements somewhere in South America. Fuck Sun, they SUCK!

  20. Guzzard says:

    Funny thing, my Relatives are being laid off by Sun. They were asked to train their replacements somewhere in South America. Fuck Sun, they SUCK!

  21. Craig says:

    I enjoy your video conversations too Robert, keep em coming.

  22. Craig says:

    I enjoy your video conversations too Robert, keep em coming.

  23. [...] This is a very fascinating interview of the two guys behind ZFS by Robert Scoble. Try to ignore the idiocies of the interviewer. The subjects (Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore) are damn smart guys (and one even gets up to answer his phone partway through! Must be important!) [...]

  24. Paul says:

    Very good interview. I suggest that you include the interviewees names in the web site too (even though the onscreen credits were well timed). This would make it easier to re-reference after one viewing and even to search. You had good questions that were clearly worthy of their very smart subjects.

  25. Paul says:

    Very good interview. I suggest that you include the interviewees names in the web site too (even though the onscreen credits were well timed). This would make it easier to re-reference after one viewing and even to search. You had good questions that were clearly worthy of their very smart subjects.

  26. [...] 10, 2007 in linux, open source Sun interviews the creators of ZFS: Smart dudes. 45 minutes. Talking about Sun Microsystems’ ZFS. File storage system that’s used [...]

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