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Sun Releases ZFS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-can't-beat-the-circular-filing-system dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun's engineers have been blogging today that Sun has finally released its next generation filesystem, ZFS today by pushing out the "community" (i.e. testing) build 27 of OpenSolaris in source and binary form. There is also documentation and a a source code tour available on their site."

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  1. Re:Newness? Reliability? by AndrewStephens · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Er, did you read the article the same article that I did? The filesystem apparently supports transactions both for file contents and filesystem structures. They are bragging that they have simulated crashing the computer over a million times without corruption. Sounds like they have it covered.

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