ZFS

Not to be confused with zFS (IBM), an unrelated IBM mainframe filesystem

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.

Storage formats

• ZFS On-Disk Specification – Draft (2006)
• 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
• OpenZFS Feature Flags Compatibility Matrix (VX weblog)