Why do geeks have lust for ZFS? at zamwi.com
tech.zamwi.com/2007/01/16/why-do-geeks-have-lust-for-zfs
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ZFS is an open source file system which was developed in November 2005 and maintained by Sun Microsystems. The best way to describe ZFS is the same way that Sun describes it: “It’s what Virtual Memory did for RAM, except that we did It for hard drives