I was finally able to attend one of these NoVA Sec meetup events. Got to meet some great people and enjoyed an eye-opening presentation on ZFS from Wes Shield. It was the first I had heard about ZFS so it provided a nice foundation. I’m not too much of a hardware person but my key takeaway was that ZFS allows you to throw a bunch of disks together, add them to ZFS to be managed, and then set them up into a bunch of different configurations. Wes demonstrated several setups including JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks), mirroring, and a few types of RAID. ZFS also offers easy backup and restore capability through snapshots. Thanks infoLock Technologies for offering up your facilities. See our original post for more information.

Here is some information regarding this week’s Thursday NoVA Sec meetup event.

• Who: Wes Shield
• What: ZFS
  • ZFS, developed by Sun Microsystems, is a big shift in filesystem concepts and design. Without going into the underlying code we will discuss ZFS concepts, features, and abilities. If you plan on deploying a file server then this talk is for you, since ZFS very well may change your plans.
• When: 3/27, 5:30 PM EST
• Where: infoLock Technologies (1901 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1016; Arlington, VA 22209)

For more information on NoVA Sec, see its description in our NoVA Meetups section. Here is a link to the post about this meetup.