The document outlines the agenda and objectives for the Developer Summit 2013 focused on OpenZFS. It highlights the importance of collaboration in improving ZFS, discussing upcoming sessions, presentations, and topics related to OpenZFS development. The summit aims to foster community engagement and innovation in ZFS through hands-on hackathons and discussions on various technical topics.

1. Developer Summit 2013

2. Thank You Sponsors!
breakfast, lunch, coffee, beer, T-shirts, space, video recording

3. Introductions
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4. Why OpenZFS?
● Raise awareness
○ open-source ZFS is awesome!
● Ensure continued improvements to ZFS are
available on all platforms
● Encourage collaboration
○ lots of smart people are working on ZFS
Avoid fragmentation, duplicated effort, stagnation.

5. State of OpenZFS
In the past 3 months:
● Website launch
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>50,000 unique visitors
social & traditional media coverage
Edited by dozens of people
Wikipedia article, 1st page of google(“zfs”)
● Office Hours
○ >20 live participants; >800 subsequent views
● Talks at 5 conferences by 4 different people
○ reaching total of >300 people
● Developer Summit

6. Schedule
Monday
● Introductions
● Discussion sessions & presentations (~6 hrs)
○ Lunch; morning & afternoon coffee breaks
● (5:45pm) Beer bash & dinner (on-site)
Tuesday
● (9:30am) Hackathon
● (5:00pm) Hackathon presentations
● (6:16pm) Optional dinner nearby

7. Hackathon
Work in small teams (2-4 people)
Work with people you don’t usually
Work on subject area you don’t usually
Start a project and have something, however
small, to show at the end of the day
● Several ideas on DevSummit page
● Day will begin with idea presentations + group
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8. Discussion Priorities
● OpenZFS Code Repository
○ what code, how to manage, how to get there
● Report work in progress, get input
● Gather requirements for future projects

9. Topics (1 of 2)
● OpenZFS code repository (Matt Ahrens)
○ porting reports
● Fragmented performance (George Wilson)
● Portable FMA work-alike (Brian Behlendorf)
○ & spares in general
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Community organization (Karyn Ritter)
Storage tiering (Boris Protopopov)
Performance investigation (Adam Leventhal)
Channel Programs (Chris S. & Max G.)

10. Topics (2 of 2)
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Testing & testrunner suite (John Kennedy)
Scalability issues (Kirill Davydychev)
What we’re doing with ZFS (several people)
Multi-tennant ZFS (Rob M)
Interactions w/VM subsystem (Jorgen, Brian)
● Examining on-disk format w/mdb (Max B.)
● xattr performance (Prakash S)