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Solaris ZFSThe Most Advanced File System on the Planet Anyone who has ever lost important files, run out of space on a partition, spent weekends adding new storage to servers, tried to grow or shrink a file system, or experienced data corruption knows that there is room for improvement in file systems and volume managers. The Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS), is designed from the ground up to meet the emerging needs of a general-purpose file system that spans the desktop to the data center. Mitchell Erblich Ex-Sun Eng ------------------ Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Lisa Shepherd wrote: > > "Zettabyte File System" is the formal, expanded name of the file system and > > "ZFS" is its abbreviation. In most Sun manuals, the name is expanded at > > first use and the abbreviation used the rest of the time. Though I was > > surprised to find that the Solaris ZFS System Administration Guide, which I > > would consider the main source of ZFS information, doesn't seem to have > > "Zettabyte" anywhere in it. Anyway, both names are official and correct, > > but since "Zettabyte" is such a mouthful, "ZFS" is what gets used most of > > the time. > > How current is that? I thought that while "Zettabyte File System" > was the original name, use of it was dropped a couple years ago and > ZFS became the only name. I don't see "Zettabyte" appearing anywhere > in the ZFS community pages. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
