ZFS

File Format
Name	ZFS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Filesystem ZFS
Released	2005

ZFS is a filesystem originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It has sophisticated features including software RAID, deduplication, and data compression.

On Linux

ZFS cannot be incorporated into the Linux kernel distribution, due to license incompatibilities. However, a native Linux port of it is available, and was declared to be production-ready as of March 2013.

Storage formats

• ZFS On-Disk Specification – Draft (ZFSOnDiskFormat.pdf, Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2006-08)
• Oracle Solaris 11.2 ZFS Version Descriptions
• OpenZFS Feature Flags

Links

• Wikipedia article
• OpenZFS
• ZFS on Linux
• Oracle Solaris 11 ZFS
• Article about production-ready ZFS for Linux