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* background checksumming and self-healing for data integrity  
* background checksumming and self-healing for data integrity  
* Built-in stripes (RAID-0), mirrors (RAID-1) and RAID-Z (it's like software RAID-5, but more efficient due to ZFS's copy-on-write transactional model)
* Built-in stripes (RAID-0), mirrors (RAID-1) and RAID-Z (it's like software RAID-5, but more efficient due to ZFS's copy-on-write transactional model)
* there are ports of ZFS to FreeBSD and Mac OSX
* triple parity raid (raidz3) has been added to ZFS [http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/triple_parity_raid_z]
* there are ports of ZFS to FreeBSD and Mac OS X
* the source code license of ZFS is incompatible with the GPL of the Linux kernel, therefore only available as userland filesystem (ZFS-over-FUSE; see see http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE) on Linux
* the source code license of ZFS is incompatible with the GPL of the Linux kernel, therefore only available as userland filesystem (ZFS-over-FUSE; see see http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE) on Linux
* installable ZFS/FUSE packages are available e.g. on latest Ubuntu und Fedora (see http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/103/ZFS.pdf)
* installable ZFS/FUSE packages are available e.g. on latest Ubuntu und Fedora (see http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/103/ZFS.pdf)
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