ZFS Paper at USENIX LISA

Jeff Bonwick and Matthew Ahrens presented their groundbreaking paper, 'ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems,' at the 18th USENIX Conference on System Administration (LISA '04).

Significance

This was the first major public revelation of ZFS, generating immense excitement and proving to the industry that a fundamentally new approach to file systems was not only possible but imminent.