Backing Up Isn't Enough: A Modern Guide To ZFS On Linux
How-To Geek, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
By using Linux, you're opening yourself up to a variety of different filesystems, each of them good at their very own thing. One of them is ZFS-and it's a dream for long-term data storage.
ZFS, originally an acronym for Zettabyte File System, is an advanced, combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. Currently maintained by the OpenZFS project, it's pretty distinct from traditional storage architectures in that it integrates the roles of file management and disk management into a single, cohesive entity