ZFS is a file system developed by Sun Microsystems. Some claims to fame are: - 128-bit File System
- Pooled Storage Model
- Copy-on-Write Transactions
- RAID-Z
- Disk Scrubbing
- Pipelined I/O Engine
- Constant-time Snapshots and Clones
- Compression
- Data Corruption Protection
- Hot Spare
Some limitation of ZFS are: - Not a native cluster, distributed, or parallel file system
- Doesn't support split mirror
- Cannot install a boot ZFS root file system
- Doesn't support user or group quotas
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