Jeff Bonwick invented and led development of the ZFS file system,[1] which was used in Oracle Corporation's ZFS storage products as well as startups including Nexenta, Delphix, Joyent, and Datto, Inc.[2][3] Bonwick is also the inventor of slab allocation,[4] which is used in many operating systems including MacOS and Linux, and the LZJB compression algorithm.
His roles included Sun Fellow,[5][6] Sun Storage CTO,[7] and Oracle vice president.[8]
- ^ Stanik, John (September–October 2007). "A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore". ACM Queue. 5 (6). Association for Computing Machinery: 13–19. doi:10.1145/1317394.1317400.
- ^ "The Birth of ZFS". OpenZFS. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ^ "Sun's ZFS Creator to Quit Oracle and Join Startup". eWeek. Retrieved September 29, 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ The story behind the slab allocator, Bonwick blog, Sun Microsystems, [1]
- ^ "Sun Storage Guru Bonwick Named 14th Sun Fellow". Oracle. Oracle Blog. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Sun Engineer Jeff Bonwick is New Sun Fellow". Vol. 112, no. 4. System News, Inc. 26 June 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Stammers, Tim. "Q&A: Jeff Bonwick, Sun's Storage CTO and Bill Moore, ZFS co-designer". Net.Work. TechNews. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
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