[ug-discuss] SVOSUG - Tues, November 22nd - ZFS, the last word in filesystems

[Alan DuBoff]

Ok, I know this the holiday season and some folks were wondering if there 
would be a meeting this month since Thanksgiving is upon us. Well, the answer 
is yes, the show must go on.

This months meeting is very special, as it offers a perspective into a 
technology that offers a magnitude of possibilities of what will be done with 
it. ZFS, the zettabyte file system offers us a 128-bit filesystem on top of 
our beloved Solaris, both x86/AMD64 and SPARC.

Please join our meeting this month and meet some of the ZFS team to explain to 
you what exactly it is that this new filesystem can do for you, and will 
continue to do for you into the ever so distant future. This is truely 
amazing technology, which has been released into the OpenSolaris community 
already. You can download a build of OpenSolaris which has ZFS in it from the 
Sun Download Center for free. Yes, you can see this technology for yourself 
and understand how easy it is to use.

We're extremely happy to showcase ZFS to the Silicon Valley Open Solaris User 
Group this month, and would like to give a big round of applause to the 
entire ZFS team, including but not limited to:

Jeff Bonwick
Bill Moore
Matt Ahrens
Eric Schrock
Lori Alt
Bill Baker
Rich Brown
Eric Kustarz
Tabriz Leman
Lin Ling
Mark Maybee
Neil Perrin
Bill Ricker
Mark Shellenbaum
Steve Talley

And if you haven't seen Dan Price's most excellent online flash presentation 
for ZFS, do yourself a favor and click to your nearest opensolaris.org site 
and get a glimpse of it. Dan did a real kick @$$ job on this, I must say.

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/demos/basics/

 What: ZFS - The last word in filesystems
Where: Sun Santa Clara campus auditorium (upstairs)
 When: Tuesday, November 22nd
 Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
  Map: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf

No RSVP required, just show up! Everyone is welcome!

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Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering