OpenZFS

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Zettabyte File System

What is ZFS?

If you don’t know, it’s a great time to learn. ZFS [1] was developed at Sun Microsystems in the early 2000s. ZFS is not just an on-disk data storage format like FAT or NTFS, but a complete storage software stack from stern to stem. Its purpose is applying the CIA triad to data. It is an alternative to RAID (both hardware and software).

The ZFS stack

Don’t mix it up with RAID or RAID controllers

Take snapshots

Replicate

Encrypt

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