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What is ZFS?
ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed with a focus on data integrity. It provides features such as protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, snapshots and clones, data deduplication, and integrated RAID-Z. It is commonly used in servers, NAS devices, and other storage solutions where data integrity and reliability are critical.
What other technologies are related to ZFS?
ZFS Competitor Technologies
XFS
XFS is a competing filesystem, offering similar features like snapshots and volume management.
btrfs
Btrfs is another copy-on-write filesystem with snapshot and volume management capabilities, directly competing with ZFS.
ext4
Ext4 is a widely used filesystem that, while lacking advanced features of ZFS, is often considered an alternative due to its stability and performance characteristics, and can be combined with other technologies like LVM to achieve similar features.
Ceph
Ceph is a distributed storage system that provides object, block, and file storage. It can be considered a competitor as it offers similar capabilities to ZFS in a distributed environment.
Lustre
Lustre is a parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale storage. It offers features and use cases overlapping with ZFS in certain scenarios.
VxVM
VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager) is a commercial volume manager which competes with ZFS's volume management capabilities.
Gluster
Gluster is a distributed file system that can be used for storage, offering an alternative to ZFS, particularly in clustered setups.
GPFS
GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance clustered file system that competes with ZFS in enterprise environments.
ZFS Complementary Technologies
DRBD
DRBD provides block-level replication. ZFS can be used on top of DRBD to provide a highly available storage solution.
LVM
LVM provides logical volume management capabilities. While ZFS includes its own volume management, LVM can be used in conjunction with ZFS in certain configurations.
NFS
NFS is a network file system protocol. ZFS can be used as the underlying storage for NFS shares.
Which job functions commonly mention ZFS?
Database Administrator
0.4% of all Database Administrator jobs mention ZFS
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Site Reliability Engineer
0.2% of all Site Reliability Engineer jobs mention ZFS
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Administrator
997 Administrator jobs mention ZFS
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Engineer
1085 Engineer jobs mention ZFS
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Engineering & R&D
1095 Engineering & R&D jobs mention ZFS
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