If you are in the IT field, you have no doubt heard a lot of great things about ZFS, the file system originally introduced by Sun in 2004. The ZFS file system has features that make it an exciting part of a solid SAN solution. For example, ZFS can use SSD drives to cache blocks of data. That ZFS feature is called the L2ARC. A ZFS file system is built on top of a storage pool made up of multiple devices. A ZFS file system can be shared through iSCSI, NFS, and CFS/SAMBA.
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