ZFS--the last word in file systems
Pretty cool! A breakthrough file system from Sun, will be part of solaris 10. Some key features of ZFS:
- endian-neutral
You can easily move disks from a SPARC server to an x86 server.
- Simple administration
ZFS automates and consolidates complicated storage administration concepts, reducing administrative overhead by 80 percent.
- Provable data integrity
ZFS protects all data with 64-bit checksums that detect and correct silent data corruption.
- Unlimited scalability
As the world's first 128-bit file system, ZFS offers 16 billion billion times the capacity of 32- or 64-bit systems.
- 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.


