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= Welcome to OpenZFS =

OpenZFS was announced in September 2013 as the truly open source successor to the  ZFS project. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X platforms, and a wide range of companies that build products on top of OpenZFS.

OpenZFS is an outstanding storage platform that encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume managers, and more, with consistent reliability, functionality and performance across all distributions:

Goals
The high-level goals of OpenZFS are:
 * to raise awareness of the quality, utility, and availability of open source implementations of ZFS
 * to encourage open communication about ongoing efforts to improve open source ZFS
 * to ensure consistent reliability, functionality, and performance of all distributions of ZFS.

The main technical goal of OpenZFS is easier sharing of code between platforms. Strategies include:
 * creating a platform-independent mailing list for developers to review ZFS code and architecture changes from all platforms
 * smoothing the illumos integration process
 * making it easy to run both ztest and the ZFS test suite (TestRunner or STF based) on each platform
 * reducing code differences between the platforms.

What's new?
March: Matt Ahrens will be delivering a keynote presentation at AsiaBSDcon in Tokyo. With additional ZFS-focused talks by Michael Dexter, Dru Lavigne, and Kris Moore.

February: Adam Leventhal wrote about the new OpenZFS write throttle in a blog post.

January: Brian Behlendorf, lead engineer for ZFS on Linux, hosted OpenZFS Office Hours. View the video recording.

November: video and slides from the OpenZFS Developer Summit.

Site orientation

 * FAQ
 * How to participate
 * Companies with products that are based on OpenZFS
 * Download distributions that include OpenZFS
 * Events – the forthcoming OpenZFS Developer Summit and more
 * Developer resources
 * mailing list
 * illumos integration process
 * contributors
 * platform code differences
 * OpenZFS Office Hours
 * implementation
 * ZFS send
 * administrative commands
 * Documentation
 * features
 * publications and conference talks
 * history – from ZFS to OpenZFS
 * OpenZFS launch announcement – September 2013
 * performance tuning
 * Projects
 * reduce code differences
 * the ZFS Channel Programs (ZCP) proposal
 * About OpenZFS

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