OpenZFS: a truly open successor to ZFS

    Today, the OpenZFS organization announced the official launch of the OpenZFS project of the same name. It should guarantee a bright future for the ZFS file system, which is now in the hands of Oracle.

    ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is a 128-bit file system created by Sun Microsystems in 2004. It combines the concepts of a file system, logical disk and physical media manager, an innovative disk data structure, lightweight file systems, and simple storage volume management. Not without reason, ZFS is called the most advanced file system in the world. OpenZFS

    Projectcreated to promote the file system on various operating systems, to organize more effective collaboration of developers, improve documentation, conduct conferences, meetings and online communication. A mailing list was immediately created .

    The backbone of the OpenZFS organization is developers who have previously worked on this file system as part of various projects, including FreeBSD, Illumous, and ZFS On Linux. Now all of them will unite under the roof of a single project. Of course, this contributes to a more active promotion of the file system, and more fruitful cooperation. In total, OpenZFS brings together more than a hundred developers for all supported platforms .

    Matt Ahrens, one of the two co-authors of the original ZFS file system at Sun Microsystems, who left the company, was also involved in the creation of the project.

    In benchmarks for Linux, ZFS shows quite decent results compared to EXT4 and Btrfs, but further optimization is clearly needed, so the news about the development of this project is very encouraging.

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