Oracle ZFS

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Oracle ZFS
Initial releaseNovember 2005;19 years ago (2005-11), part of OpenSolaris
Stable release
11.4 SRU53 (Solaris OS) [1] / January 18, 2023;2 years ago (2023-01-18)
Written inC
Operating system Oracle Solaris
License Proprietary
Website docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/zfsover-1.html

Oracle ZFS is Oracle's proprietary implementation of the ZFS file system and logical volume manager for Oracle Solaris. ZFS is a registered trademark belonging to Oracle. [2]

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History

Solaris 10

In update 2 and later, ZFS is part of Sun's own Solaris 10 operating system and is thus available on both SPARC and x86-based systems.

Solaris 11

After Oracle's Solaris 11 Express release, the OS/Net consolidation (the main OS code) was made proprietary and closed-source, [3] and further ZFS upgrades and implementations inside Solaris (such as encryption) are not compatible with other non-proprietary implementations which use previous versions of ZFS.

When creating a new ZFS pool, to retain the ability to use access the pool from other non-proprietary Solaris-based distributions, it is recommended to upgrade to Solaris 11 Express from OpenSolaris (snv_134b), and thereby stay at ZFS version 28.

Future development

On September 2, 2017, Simon Phipps reported that Oracle had laid off virtually all of its Solaris core development staff, interpreting it as a sign that Oracle no longer intends to support future development of the platform. [4]

Version history

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Old release
Latest Proprietary stable release
ZFS Filesystem Version NumberOS ReleaseSignificant changes
6Solaris 11.1Multilevel file system support [5]
7Solaris 11.4 SRU 45File retention support [5]
8Solaris 11.4 SRU 51Unicode versioning support [5]
ZFS Pool Version NumberOS ReleaseSignificant changes
29Solaris Nevada b148RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator
30Solaris Nevada b149ZFS encryption
31Solaris Nevada b150Improved 'zfs list' performance
32Solaris Nevada b151One MB block support
33Solaris Nevada b163Improved share support
34Solaris 11.1 (0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.2)Sharing with inheritance
35Solaris 11.2 (0.5.11-0.175.2.0.0.42.0)Sequential resilver
36Solaris 11.3Efficient log block allocation
37Solaris 11.3 LZ4 compression
38Solaris 11.4xcopy with encryption
39Solaris 11.4reduce resilver restart
40Solaris 11.4Deduplication 2
41Solaris 11.4Asynchronous dataset destroy
42Solaris 11.4Reguid: ability to change the pool guid
43Solaris 11.4, Oracle ZFS Storage Simulator 8.7 [6] RAID-Z improvements and cloud device support. [7]
44Solaris 11.4 [7] Device removal
45Solaris 11.4 SRU 11 [8] Lazy deadlists
46Solaris 11.4 SRU 12 [9] Compact file metadata for encryption
47Solaris 11.4 SRU 21 [10] Property Support for ZVOLs
48Solaris 11.4 SRU 45File retention support [11]
49Solaris 11.4 SRU 51Unicode versioning support [11]
50Solaris 11.4 SRU 57Raw crypto replication [12]
51Solaris 11.4 SRU 63'onexpiry' options for file retention [12]
52Solaris 11.4 SRU 72Mount support for 'clonedir' [13]
53Solaris 11.4 SRU 78Maximize space [14]


References

  1. ↑ "Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU53". January 18, 2023. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Status Information for Serial Number 85901629 (ZFS)". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Oracle Has Killed OpenSolaris". Techie Buzz. August 14, 2010. Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ Varghese, Sam (September 4, 2017). "Bye, bye Solaris, it was a nice ride while it lasted". ITWire. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 "ZFS File System Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2022. Archived from the original on January 2, 2023. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Oracle ZFS Storage Simulator download". Oracle Corporation. 2017. Archived from the original on January 13, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  7. 1 2 "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2018. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2019. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  9. ↑ "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2019. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2020. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  11. 1 2 "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2022. Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  12. 1 2 "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  13. ↑ "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  14. ↑ "ZFS Pool Versions". Oracle Corporation. 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
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