ZFS

The ZFS community group and related projects are no longer active on this website so information here might be out of date. Oracle Solaris 11 ZFS resources are available here:

• Oracle Solaris 11 ZFS Administration Guide 
• Oracle Solaris 11 ZFS Resources 
• Oracle Solaris 11 Downloads 

ZFS Resources

What is ZFS?

 A brief overview of ZFS features

Documentation

 Man Pages, Admin Guide, Slides

Discuss

 ZFS community discussion

Code

 Source Code Tour

Demos

 Screencasts and other demos

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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
• Portable snapshot streams
• 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 docs page for more detailed information. You may also want to peruse the various ZFS links for industry reviews, overviews, and blogs, 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 for a detailed look at the nuts and bolts of ZFS.