Contributors

ZFS Experts
The following people have volunteered to be resources help answer questions in their specific areas of expertise. The mailing list is also a general resource for code-related questions. Individuals listed alphabetically by last name:

Please add yourself here with a sentence about your experience with ZFS, a sentence about your areas of expertise, and a link to how to contact you (could be via your User: page on this site).


 * Matt Ahrens
 * Co-founded the ZFS project at Sun in 2001; designed & implemented many features including snapshot & clones, send and receive, scrub/resilver.
 * Broad knowledge of ZFS, but most expertise in DMU, DSL, and ZAP.
 * Will Andrews
 * Spectra Logic & FreeBSD ZFS team member since November 2011, minor role in the OS X port since late 2012.
 * Primary areas of focus are in DMU & ZVOL, involving I/O performance, bug fixes, & portability.
 * Brian Behlendorf
 * ZFS on Linux maintainer; implemented the SPL and adapted ZFS for the Linux kernel.
 * Broad knowledge of Linux kernel internals and ZFS in general.
 * Justin T. Gibbs
 * Member of Spectra Logic's team working on ZFS enhancements, including Optimizing ZFS for Block Storage
 * Broad knowledge of FreeBSD internals, FreeBSD's integration of ZFS, and the DMU and vdev layers.
 * Jorgen Lundman
 * Added ZFS support to U-Boot and initial ZFS on Linux port to ARM.
 * Working on ZFS on Linux port to Apple OS X zfs-osx
 * Martin Matuska
 * FreeBSD ZFS team member since 2010; keeping FreeBSD in sync with illumos and fixing small bugs
 * Most expertise in porting of illumos changes to FreeBSD
 * Chris Siden
 * Implemented zpool feature flags and background destroy of filesystems.
 * Most expertise in Feature Flags, ztest, and illumos development process.
 * George Wilson
 * ZFS developer since 2005; implemented single-copy ARC and many SPA-layer performance enhancements.
 * Most expertise in SPA (space maps, ZIO pipeline, block allocation, etc), ARC, and corrupt pool recovery.
 * Richard Yao
 * The Gentoo Linux ZFS maintainer since January 2012; many miscellaneous improvements to Linux port
 * Most expertise in Linux integration and ZFS on Linux development process.
 * Aron Xu
 * Work on ZFS on Linux support in Debian as co-maintainer.