What is ZFS and why is it so popular among experienced users? Let's have a look at the history of ZFS and its features and advantages over other filesystems.

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ZFS is an advanced filesystem created by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle) and released for OpenSolaris in November 2005. Features of ZFS include: pooled storage (integrated volume management - zpool), Copy-on-write, snapshots, data integrity verification and automatic repair...

The history and implementations of ZFS covers the development of the ZFS file system. ZFS began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001.

ZFS has integration with operating system's NFS, CIFS and iSCSI servers, it does not implement its own server but reuse existing software. However, iSCSI integration is not yet available on Linux.

ZFS: Concepts and Tutorial. On your quest for data integrity using OpenZFS is unavoidable. In fact, it would be quite unfortunate if you are using anything but ZFS for storing your valuable data.

Learn to get the most out of your ZFS filesystem in our new series on storage fundamentals.

ZFS is a next generation filesystem created by Matthew Ahrens and Jeff Bonwick. It was designed around a few key ideas: Administration of storage should be simple. Redundancy should be handled by the filesystem. File-systems should never be taken offline for repair.

An introduction to using ZFS as software RAID in Linux (ZoL). This tutorial will teach you how to build your own pools and use ZFS as software RAID.

From its inception, "ZFS" has referred to the "Zettabyte File System" developed at Sun Microsystems and ZFS was revolutionary for completely decoupling the file system from specialized storage...

NetBSD-9 has ZFS that is considered to work well. There have been fixes since 9.0_RELEASE. As always, people running NetBSD 9 are likely best served by the most recent version of the netbsd-9...

ZFS has been (mostly) kept out of Linux due to CDDL incompatibility with Linux's GPL license. It is the clear hope of the Linux community that Oracle will re-license ZFS in a form that can be included in...

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager originally designed and implemented by a team at Sun Microsystems led by Jeff Bonwick and Matthew Ahrens.