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= OpenZFS =
= OpenZFS =


OpenZFS is open-source storage software which encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume managers, and more. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS [[platforms]], and a wide range of [[companies and organizations]].  By working together, we will continue making OpenZFS an outstanding storage platform, with consistent reliability and functionality across all [[distributions]].


OpenZFS is open-source storage software which encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume managers, and more. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS [[platforms]], and a wide range of [[companies and organizations]].  By working together, we can continue making OpenZFS an outstanding storage platform, with consistent reliability and functionality across all [[distributions]].
== History ==
 
OpenZFS is the truly open source successor to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS ZFS] project originally developed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems Sun Microsystems] for the Solaris operating system. The source code for ZFS was released under the [http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0 CDDL] in 2005 as part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opensolaris OpenSolaris] operating system, and was subsequently ported to other [[platforms]]:
 
* In 2006 the first alpha release of ZFS support on Linux [http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/ via FUSE] was released.
* In 2007 FreeBSD 7.0 included native support for ZFS.
* In 2008 the ZFS on Linux project began development of a native Linux port which had its first stable release in 2013.
* The MacZFS project is porting ZFS to Mac OS.
 
After OpenSolaris was discontinued in 2010 updates to ZFS on Solaris were no longer released as open source. In response the illumos project was founded as an open source fork of OpenSolaris which has continued the development of OpenZFS with many new [[OpenZFS Features|features and performance improvements]].
 
== Goals ==


The main technical goal of the OpenZFS project is to make it easier to share changes to ZFS between platforms.  We have a number of efforts toward this:
The main technical goal of the OpenZFS project is to make it easier to share changes to ZFS between platforms.  We have a number of efforts toward this:
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