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Old 6th September 2008
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
What is ZFS and why is it better than FFS/UFS?
For end users that do not have demanding storage requirements and/or disk read/write bottlenecks related to iowait, ZFS means nothing and is no better than FFS/UFS(or any other file system for that matter). ZFS is Sun's forward looking "Future Proof" filesystem for SysAdmins that need performance, data integrity and "Unlimited scalability". I can certainly see the benefits of ZFS for the Enterprise(Sun's Primary Market) but again, for the end user running FreeBSD on his/her desktop(or even a personal server) its not important at this stage.
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