iXsystems was out in full force at the first FreeBSD Storage Summit which took place February 22nd in Santa Clara, California during the USENIX FAST ’16 conference. This was the first FreeBSD DevSummit to be dedicated exclusively to storage-related technologies and was a who’s who in OpenZFS and FreeBSD including Matt Ahrens from Delphix and FreeBSD developers Dr. Kirk McKusick, George Neville-Neil, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, John Baldwin, Julian Elischer, Scott Long, Peter Grehan, Warner Losh, Gleb Smirnoff, Sean Bruno, and Allan Jude. The iXsystems team included Storage Architect Josh Paetzel, developers Chris Torek and Jakub Klama, plus iXsystems CTO Jordan Hubbard.
Pawel Jakub Dawidek and Matt Ahrens
The group divided into four working groups ranging from User Space Storage and New Storage Technologies but the OpenZFS session was hands-down the most attended. Of the OpenZFS topics, deduplication and TRIM were of keen interest to everyone in attendance and Jordan Hubbard stepped forward to coordinate the open development of deduplication improvements to compliment the proprietary ones that have emerged.
Justin Gibbs and Matt Ahrens
Thank you to Justin Gibbs of the FreeBSD Foundation for organizing this event, USENIX for hosting it and FlightAware for sponsoring it.
