ZFS - History

History

ZFS was designed and implemented by a team at Sun led by Jeff Bonwick and Matthew Ahrens. It was announced on September 14, 2004, but development started in 2001. Source code for ZFS was integrated into the main trunk of Solaris development on October 31, 2005 and released as part of build 27 of OpenSolaris on November 16, 2005. Sun announced that ZFS was included in the 6/06 update to Solaris 10 in June 2006, one year after the opening of the OpenSolaris community.

The name originally stood for "Zettabyte File System" but today does not stand for anything. A ZFS file system can store up to 256 quadrillion zettabytes (ZB), where a zettabyte is 270 bytes.

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