Porting the solaris ZFS file system to the freeBSD operating system
Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Marshall Kirk McKusick · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2007
The ZFS file system made revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) steps forward in filesystem design, with its authors claiming that they threw away 20 years of obsolete assumptions to design an integrated system from scratch. In this article, we describe the porting of ZFS to FreeBSD, along with describing some of the key features of ZFS file system.