Uberblok: An Interactive Museum Explaining ZFS Internals

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A storage engineer has built Uberblok, an interactive web museum dedicated to explaining the internals of ZFS, the file system. The site covers topics such as copy-on-write, transaction groups, vdevs, RAID-Z, snapshots, the ARC, metaslabs, the ZIL, and send/receive, using explanations and animated diagrams. The creator built the project with their agent swarm organization, Algotitan, and an accompanying source repository is publicly available on GitHub. The author has invited corrections from readers with deeper expertise in the subject. The project was shared on Hacker News, where it had received limited attention at the time of posting.

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