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Take A QuizZFS is a file system and logical volume manager DEVELOPED by Sun Microsystems. It is designed for high-performance, fault-tolerant, large-scale Unix-like systems.
ZFS historyZFS was first developed at Sun in 2001 as a proprietary file system, and was released as an open-source component of OpenSolaris in 2005. In 2010, when Sun was acquired by Oracle, ZFS reverted to closed-source, proprietary software.
In 2013, the development teams of the illumos, Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS operating systems collaborated to release a new open-source version of ZFS, OpenZFS.
ZFS featuresZFS features include:
The following operating systems completely or partially support ZFS:
Due to licensing incompatibilities, ZFS support on Linux is largely restricted to user space, mounted as a FUSE filesystem. This restriction satisfies the ZFS license, at a performance cost. However, in 2016, Ubuntu 16.04 introduced a segregated development model that satisfies the ZFS license terms, and began including ZFS support as a kernel module.
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