{"id":419,"date":"2017-04-02T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/zfs-file-system\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T22:53:00","slug":"zfs-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/zfs-file-system\/","title":{"rendered":"ZFS File System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZFS is an emerging file system developed at Sun Microsystems.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nUnlike traditional file systems like FAT32 or NTFS, which you would find on a Windows-based system, ZFS can &#8220;pool&#8221; multiple disks together so they appear as a single volume to the user. This is similar to a RAID configuration, but implemented in the file system rather than above it. <\/p>\n<p>Another thing that ZFS implements is copy-on-write, which means that whenever a piece of data on the disk is changed, the new version does not overwrite the old version. This enables the system to take &#8220;snapshots&#8221; of the disk at any point in time, since virtually every iteration of the stored data is available. Snapshots can be used to easily clone a copy of the entire file system from a specific date and time. ZFS has been open sourced by Sun and is currently being deployed on FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZFS is an emerging file system developed at Sun Microsystems. Unlike traditional file systems like FAT32 or NTFS, which you would find on a Windows-based system, ZFS can &#8220;pool&#8221; multiple disks together so they appear as a single volume to the user. This is similar to a RAID configuration, but implemented in the file system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}