[dba-Tech] The ZFS FS

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Mar 1 19:51:02 CST 2013


ZFS is indeed the ultimate file system. Here's a great introduction to the features of ZFS:

http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/13052/ultimate-zfs-overview-techsnap-28/


Best regards,
Hans-Christian Andersen


On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:48, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> ZFS may be the ultimate file system for any OS. 
> 
> It features are quite incredible. ZFS is a combined file system and logical
> volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include
> protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities,
> integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots
> and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic
> repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. ZFS is implemented as open-source
> software.
> 
> If you are worry about the integrity of the file system, it is supposed to
> be the most stable FS in the world. If you are concerned that it can not
> access sufficient storage don't worry. A ZFS file system can store up to 256
> quadrillion zettabytes (ZB), where a 1 zettabyte = 1,073,741,824 terabytes
> ...much larger than most of our MS Access MDBs.
> 
> http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html
> 
> It can install on a number of Distros but unfortunately, it is not supported
> by Windows Servers...yet.
> 
> Jim 
> 
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