ZFS for dummys.... suggestions?

Mon Nov 21 05:00:45 UTC 2011

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 05:34:00PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 11/20/11 12:07 PM, Ronald Klop wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:56:04 +0100, Julian Elischer 
> > <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The time has come for me to look at ZFS..
> >> Is there a reference that is recommended for a quick overview, that 
> >> doesn't get bogged down in
> >> the minute details, but gives a good overview?
> >>
> >> Preferably using short words, lots of pictures, and written in 
> >> large crayon.. :-)
> >>
> >
> > I don't know if you mean the usage of ZFS or the structure of the 
> > code, but the announcement of ZFS in FreeBSD is a nice overview 
> > about the usage of ZFS.
> >
> > ZFS - quick start.: 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-April/070616.html
> >
> > Ronald.
> >
> >
> I'm more looking for a description of the way it works.. In UFS we'd 
> have "This is an inode"..  etc.
> 

Sounds like your looking for the On disk format possibly. I saved a copy of this in the downloads section of http://dataix.net which redirects to my googlecode site. You will find the ondiskformat file there in PDF form.