Here we go with the rhythm of the Title Song of Dhoom 2 (Nothing special about it, just liked its adventurous theme, haha!)… Let’s appreciate the tremendous work of the Sun Team led by Jeff Bonwick… for creating ZFS (i.e Zettabyte File System)!!
I found it more interesting digging inside this file system. The main features include:
- High Storage capacity (Virtually Unlimited): As the world’s first 128-bit file system, ZFS offers 16 billion billion times the capacity of 32- or 64-bit systems.
- Provable data integrity: ZFS protects all data with 64-bit checksums that detect and correct silent data corruption.
- Near-Zero administration: ZFS automates and consolidates complicated storage administration concepts, reducing administrative overhead by 80 percent.
- Blazing performance: ZFS is based on a transactional object model that removes most of the traditional constraints on the order of issuing I/Os, which results in huge performance gains.
For other details and limitations, log on to wikipedia for ZFS.
P.S.: “If you’re willing to take on the entire software stack, there’s a lot of innovation possible.”
Just Rethinking of the architecture required!!
