OpenZFS Developer Summit
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2013
Delphix is hosting a developer-focused event for OpenZFS. The goal of the event is to foster cross-platform community discussions of OpenZFS work, and to make progress on some of the projects proposed for this community.
We were previously calling this event "OpenZFS Day", but decided to rename it to reflect its target audience of ZFS developers.
Huge THANK YOU to our generous sponsors
The high-level agenda is:
Monday, Nov 18 |
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Tuesday, Nov 19 | Hackathon (hopefully start work on some of the Projects the community has suggested) |
Location
The event will be in the San Francisco Bay Area, most likely in San Francisco. The specific location will depend on how many people plan to attend. The hope is that we can have it at the Delphix office in San Francisco. If it becomes too big, we'll have to reconsider and find a different location.
Speaker Info
Note: If you are in the room, you are potentially a speaker. This will be done in unconference style, so every attendee should come prepared to present or otherwise lead a discussion or session of up to 45 minutes. You can indicate potential topics in the registration table below.
Equipment available:
- Projector
- Whiteboard
Hackathon
The goals of the hackathon are:
- to get people working with ZFS engineers from outside their normal circles
- to start work on some of the projects we'd like to accomplish
Therefore, we should plan to work in small teams of 2-3 engineers. The team members could be pair-programming, splitting up the work into discrete tasks for each person, or advising / implementing.
Hackathon ideas
Add your idea and your name below. Be prepared to explain your idea at the beginning of the hackathon and enlist/entice others to help with it.
- Userland ioctls: support for send/recv (fd operations over the wire) User:mahrens
- larger (1MB) blocksize: shouldn't be too hard if we ignore performance impact User:mahrens
- dedicated kmem_cache for dedup table entries
- stdin / stdout buffer to improve performance of zfs send and receive
- ZFS mechanism to override devices' reported sector size (512 vs 4k) (alex @ delphix)
- feature flags enhancements for send streams User:csiden
- set owner of all files within a filesystem with a ZFS property User:csiden
Registration
We are expecting everyone will be there to contribute/participate.
The sign up deadline has passed. A few spots are available for late registration. Mail admin@open-zfs.org if you would like to attend.
Name | Affiliation | What do you want to talk about? | Your experience with ZFS | Travel information | T-shirt Size | Food allergies/preferences? (please list) |
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Matt Ahrens | Delphix | OpenZFS repo: what interfaces should be supported | Founded ZFS, OpenZFS | Local to SF | M | none |
Sanjeev Bagewadi | Pluribus Networks | Was part of the RPE team in Sun which fixed ZFS issues faced by customers | Will be in the Bay Area around that time | M | none | |
Ned Bass | LLNL | Common code base, block allocator improvements | ZFS on Linux port, Lustre integration | from East Bay | XL | vegetarian preferred |
Brian Behlendorf | LLNL | Portable memory management & FMA infrastructure | ZFS on Linux Maintainer | Local to east Bay Area | XL | none |
Max Bruning | Joyent | examining ZFS on-disk format with MDB | leads ZFS training classes | ? | ? | ? |
Kirill Davydychev | Nexenta | Scalability on large systems, major known bottlenecks. | Debugging, performance analysis/tuning | Houston | M | none |
Justin Gibbs | Spectra Logic | ? | DMU performance work | flying in from CO | ? | vegetarian |
Max Grossman | Delphix | Making it easier to get new ZFS developers up to speed (retrospective on the hole birth feature) | 3 months so far, still so much to learn... | Local | L | none |
John Wren Kennedy | Delphix | Uniform test coverage for OpenZFS | Supported ZFS in RPE at Sun/Oracle, and test ZFS in QA at Delphix. | Denver | L | none |
John Layman | SageCloud | Interested in disk management (spin up/down disks, drive identification, etc.) | Been working with ZFS on Linux for a few months, contributed small bugfix | Boston | XL | none |
Adam Leventhal | Delphix | ZFS performance investigations? | RAID-Z2/3, performance work, some small ZFS tasks here and there | local | L | none |
Xin Li | iXsystems | ZFS developer for FreeBSD, TrueNAS and FreeNAS products | FreeBSD deputy security officer / release engineering team member | local Bay Area | L | none |
Jorgen Lundman | GMO Internet | ZFS, portability | ZFS on OS X | Tokyo | XL | none |
Maxim Martynov | M | none | ||||
Robert Mustacchi | Joyent | Misc. debugging | Local to SF | L | None | |
Tony Nguyen | Nexenta | Misc. debugging, import and I/O performance | flying in from Denver | M | None | |
Alfred Perlstein | iXsystems | ZFS performance and debugging | FreeNAS (FreeBSD+ZFS) developer | ? | ? | ? |
Boris Protopopov | Nexenta | Resumable send/recv, defrag, storage tiering, spare management | ZFS dev lead at Nexenta, ZFS extensions for enterprise class features and performance | Boston | M | None |
Alex Reece | Delphix | small bug fixes | local | M | No marinera | |
Karyn Ritter | Delphix | Community management (discussion) | local | M | ||
Craig Rodrigues | iXsystems | ZFS developer for TrueNAS and FreeNAS products | FreeBSD release engineering team member | local | L | none |
Chris Siden | Delphix | ZFS Channel Programs, feature flags enhancements for send streams | Worked on feature flags and async destroy | local | L | none |
Alex Solomatnikov | M | none | ||||
Prashanth Sreenivasa | I would like to learn more about ZIL, ZFS I/O scheduler & pipeline and impact of using flash-disks instead of conventional hard-disks. | Worked on various PDE (product development engineering) groups including Network Storage, Systems & Solaris kernel. Recently I'm working on ZFS based storage appliances, trying to improve zfs performance on illumos/x86 platform and looking forward to contribute to the open source zfs. | M | |||
Prakash Surya | LLNL | Misc. work on Linux port. Much to learn, still. | Local to east Bay Area | M | none | |
Ilya Usvyatsky | Nexenta | resumable send/recv, defrag | ? | ? | ? | ? |
George Wilson | Delphix | performance on full & fragmented pools | Implemented lots of SPA & VDEV stuff | flying in from Atlanta ~Monday - Thursday (TBD) | ? | none |
– please keep the table above sorted by last name.
Sponsors
Please contact ann.togasaki@gmail.com if you'd like to be a sponsor of this event.
Sponsorship opportunities include:
- Breakfast (2 days) - Sponsored! Thank you Cloudscaling and iXsystems
- Lunch (2 days) - Sponsored! Thank you Spectra Logic and FreeBSD Foundation
- Coffee Breaks (2 days) - Sponsored! Thank you iXsystems
- Beer Bash (day 1) - Sponsored! Thank you DDRdrive
- T-Shirts - Sponsored! Thank you Delphix
What do you get for sponsoring:
- Your name/link on this page!
- Thank you mention during the opening and closing
- Space to put your pop-up banner at the conference venue
- An opportunity to be known as a ZFS supporter in a very talented and influential community.