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Welcome to ZFS

ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use.

ZFS Features

• Pooled Storage Model
• Always consistent on disk
• Protection from data corruption
• Live data scrubbing
• Instantaneous snapshots and clones
• Fast native backup and restore
• Highly scalable
• Built in compression
• Simplified administration model

For a more detailed look at these features, and more, check out What is ZFS? page.

Find Out More

ZFS is available in build 27a of OpenSolaris and Solaris Express: Community edition. See the downloads page for more information.

If you don't have Solaris installed but want to see ZFS in action, check out Dan Price's screencasts covering ZFS basics as well as Self Healing features. See the Getting Started page for a brief overview of most of the command line features.

Once you've downloaded and started using ZFS, you should head over to the Documentation page for more detailed information. You may also want to peruse the various ZFS blogs available, which touch on a wide variety of subjects at many different levels.

Finally, if you're a developer, you may want to visit the Source Code Tour for a detailed look at the nuts and bolts of ZFS.

Blogs

timf - ZFS Automatic Snapshots in nv_100

Oct 11, 3:39 AM

We got this code into nv_100, as part of LSARC 2008/571 and (at least inside Sun, so far) folks have been starting to play with it. It's the first time I've been able to use the GNOME Nautilus ...

relling - Hey! Where did my snapshots go? Ahh, new feature...

Oct 1, 9:47 AM

I've been running Solaris NV b99 for a week or so.  I've also been experimenting with the new automatic snapshot tool, which should arrive in b100 soon. To see what snapshots are taken, you can use ...

Simon - FAA using ZFS

Sep 28, 3:57 AM

The embattled FAA, which has suffered a number of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes this year, has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems server and storage ...

Jun-Hui Paul Duan - ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.11 预览版

Sep 22, 2:35 AM

我即将完成这个版本的 ZFS Automatic Snapshot SMF 服务，刚刚将一些更改放到了 opensolaris.org 的 Mercurial Repository 上。 这是一个非常重要的版本，修复了一些从发布时起就一直困扰我的缺陷。但是不可避免地，大量的更改也会带来大量的 bug。所以，我希望在发布正式版本前获得一些反馈。 ...

Jun-Hui Paul Duan - ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.10

Sep 22, 2:32 AM

我已经完成了 ZFS Automatic Snapshot SMF Service 的一个新版本。 这个版本修复了两个缺陷修复，一个由 Reid Spencer 指出，而另一个来自于 Breandan Dezendorf。谢谢你们，非常感激！ 在这个版本中也增加了一个新的小新功能，该功能由 Eric Kustarz 在 zfs-discuss 邮件列表上提出 。即当发生 zpool ...