OpenZFS: a truly open source ZFS successor

Today, the OpenZFS organization announced the official launch of the OpenZFS project of the same name. It must guarantee a bright future for the ZFS file system, which is now in the hands of Oracle.

ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is a 128-bit file system created at Sun Microsystems in 2004. It combines the concepts of a file system, a logical disk and physical media manager, an innovative disk data structure, lightweight file systems, and simple storage volume management. ZFS is not without reason called the world's most advanced file system.

The OpenZFS project was created to promote the file system on various operating systems, to organize more effective cooperation of developers, improve documentation, hold conferences, meetings and online communication. Immediately created and the mailing list .

The backbone of the OpenZFS organization is made up of developers who have previously worked on this file system in various projects, including FreeBSD, Illumous and ZFS On Linux. Now they all come together under the roof of a single project. Of course, this contributes to a more active promotion of the file system, and more fruitful cooperation. In total, OpenZFS brings together more than a hundred developers for all supported platforms .
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Matt Ahrens himself, one of two co-authors of the original ZFS file system at Sun Micrososystems who has since left the company, was also involved in the project.

In Linux benchmarks, ZFS shows quite decent results compared to EXT4 and Btrfs, but further optimization is clearly needed, so the news about the development of this project is very encouraging.