These peculiarities make ZFS a favored choice for servers and data storage systems where reliability, data management and fault tolerance are of primary importance.
This file system is distributed as open-source freeware. ZFS is available for various operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.
Speed and performance: ZFS is optimized to handle large files and read/write data quickly. Dynamic extension and reduction: You can easily increase and decrease the storage pool without having to create the file system again.