Unix and Mac OS are designed to support different file systems - Mac folks may use 3 a day without knowing it - which is why ZFS on Mac is not only possible, but practical. And not only practical ...

Since ZFS supports inline compression and I have no way to be sure rsync.net isn't using it where I can't see it, I wrote a few lines of Perl to generate 1GB of incompressible (pseudo-random) data ...

File systems are supposed to protect your data, but most are 20-30 year old architectures that risk data with every I/O. The open source ZFS from Sun Oracle claims high data integrity - and now ...

ZFS on Linux Implementation. The integration of ZFS with the Linux kernel has opened up new possibilities for storage management on Linux-based systems. While ZFS was originally developed for Solaris, ...

ZFS dnodes also presented a performance challenge to Lustre. ZFS 0.6.5 dnodes are 512 bytes, which are not nearly large enough to accommodate Lustre’s extended attributes. ZFS’ two extra 4k blocks ...

FWIW, I use ZFS on my home server (ZoL on ubuntu), I don't do or see a point to doing anything nearly as crazy as the OP is suggesting. I do weekly snapshots of most of my file systems, ...

ZFS is a 128-bit file system built for scalability, allowing for zettabyte-scale storage with virtually no limitations on file sizes, volume sizes, or the number of files.