Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - "I’m a Linux geek, have been since 1993 (Slackware!). All of SmugMug’s datacenters (and our EC2 images) are built on Linux. But the current state of filesystems on Linux is awful, and it’s been awful for at least 8 years. As a result, we’ve put our first OpenSolaris box into production at SmugMug and I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the performance (the userland portions of the OS, though, leave a lot to be desired). Why OpenSolaris? ZFS. ZFS is the most amazing filesystem I’ve ever come across. Integrated volume management. Copy-on-write. Transactional. End-to-end data integrity. On-the-fly corruption detection and repair. Robust checksums. No RAID-5 write hole. Snapshots..." - SmugMug Blog

...and don't miss the follow up: ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update

Erwann Chénedé give us a look (and I do mean look - lots of screenshots) at ZFS snapshot visualization in GNOME. 

Storage Decisions New York 2008 Presentations Now Available - "My pal, Greg Schulz, just pointed out that TechTarget has posted the presentations from Storage Decisions New York 2008." - Stephen Foskett