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= Welcome to OpenZFS =

Summary
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:

ZFS User Conference
The first ZFS User Conference was held March 16-17, 2017, in Norwalk CT. Videos and slides from the conference are available here: zfs.datto.com

OpenZFS Developer Summit 2016 <= click for details
The fourth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit was held in San Francisco, September 26-27th, 2016. Check out the following blog posts about the event:  Delphix Blog: Thank you OpenZFS 2016 Developers Summit Sponsors! iXsystems Blog: OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever 

Click on the title of the presentation for more details.

Thanks to the 2016 Platinum sponsors for their support!

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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?
September 2016: OpenZFS Developer Summit 2016 will be held September 26-27th in San Francisco.

October 2015: Slides and video from the OpenZFS Developer Summit 2015 are posted.

June 2015: Videos from the OpenZFS European Conference are posted.

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 for users/sysadmins
 * features
 * feature flags
 * 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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