ZFS Book
ZFS Book Cover
It was a hard job, but it’s done! As i’m used to say, it’s NOT a “ZFS Bible” or “The Definitive Guide“, but is a practical book, and with many insights into ZFS working. The OpenSolaris 2009.06 release CD with the book, makes even easier to install the OpenSolaris OS and start to play with ZFS in minutes. So, with the new version of OpenSolaris being released and IPS, you will be able to upgrade the whole OS with just one command!
If you want to install OpenSolaris and start to use the ZFS filesystem right away, this book is for you. If you want to use the ZFS filesystem’s features, but want to continue to use your MacOSX, or Microsoft Windows desktop, don’t panic, you will see that you can have all the nice features of this 128-bit filesystem from your personal computer using standard protocols like NFS, CIFS, or iSCSI.
So, you can have your photos, videos, and documents on ZFS without complication!
The book has chapters about ZFS features like: checksum, ditto-blocks, RAID, Prefetch, IO priority and etc. You will be able to know about the Hybrid storage model, slogs, L2ARC, and replication procedures (send/receive). Performance characteristics and tools to analyze them (arc_summary/Ben Rockwood, fsstat, iostat, zilstat/Rock and Elling, and more). If you will use ZFS for NFS services i did talk about NFS block size monitor, a tool i did write using the NFS dtrace provider.
There is a special topic from my “ZFS Internals” series, mdb parameters, zdb, and many more!
So, if you would like to start to use and study this revolutionary filesystem, i did write this book for you. It should be out in the end of this month (03/26/2010). And for sure, i will appreciate your opinion, critics, suggestions (even spam), on the commentary section. I hope you enjoy! ;-)
ps.: It’s in Brazilian portuguese (i do not speak english, and as you can see i cannot write in english too).
peace
Congratulations, Marcelo! Though I can’t read the book, I know how much work such a project can be, and how satisfying it is to see it in print. I hope it sells well, as ZFS deserves a lot more than the space I was able to give it in OpenSolaris Bible.
It would be great if English translation was printed – as it seems there’s no book about this subject in English and most people can’t read Brazilian Portuguese. And I can assure you’ll sell many more copies in English.
Thanks for your comment Igor, that would be really great! The publisher has the rights to do so, and the time will tell us… but you are right, in english we can reach more users.
Thanks a lot Dave! I could not talk to you in CommunityOne last year, but i have my copy of OpenSolaris Bible with many signatures (including Nick obviously ;-), and hope we can meet in the future so you can sign it too!
Leal
This is excellent news, Marcelo. Congrats!
Nice! You’re the man Marcelo! I hope I can get an autographed copy some day. :)
Now I need to learn Brazilian portugese. One more on the list.
Thanks Ben!
We can exchange the autographs… ;-)
Leal
Nice one and thanks for this Job
best,
Excelente!
Na minha próxima atualização de SO, meus HDs rodarão em ZFS. Obrigado!
Great work,
I followed all of your work on ZFS since last year, and let me say how much i appreciated your work.
As many others, i would probably purchase your book as soon as an english copy will be printed. Really thank you from the University of Verona
Patrick T.
Hello Patrick!
Thank you very much for your kind words, it’s very nice to hear the feedback for our work. And it’s really nice to know that we are helping someone, somehow.
Thank you!