zfs discuss - Aug 2007 - [docs-discuss] Introduction to Operating Systems

Lisa Shepherd wrote:
> "Zettabyte File System" is the formal, expanded name of the file
system and "ZFS" is its abbreviation. In most Sun manuals, the name is
expanded at first use and the abbreviation used the rest of the time. Though I
was surprised to find that the Solaris ZFS System Administration Guide, which I
would consider the main source of ZFS information, doesn''t seem to have
"Zettabyte" anywhere in it. Anyway, both names are official and
correct, but since "Zettabyte" is such a mouthful, "ZFS" is
what gets used most of the time.
How current is that?   I thought that while "Zettabyte File System"
was the original name, use of it was dropped a couple years ago and
ZFS became the only name.   I don''t see "Zettabyte" appearing
anywhere
in the ZFS community pages.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp

Solaris ZFS?The Most Advanced File System on the Planet

Anyone who has ever lost important files, run out of space on a
partition, spent weekends adding new storage to servers, tried to grow
or shrink a file system, or experienced data corruption knows that there
is room for improvement in file systems and volume managers. The Solaris
Zettabyte File System (ZFS), is designed from the ground up to meet the
emerging needs of a general-purpose file system that spans the desktop
to the data center. 

Mitchell Erblich
Ex-Sun Eng
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Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> Lisa Shepherd wrote:
> > "Zettabyte File System" is the formal, expanded name of the
file system and "ZFS" is its abbreviation. In most Sun manuals, the
name is expanded at first use and the abbreviation used the rest of the time.
Though I was surprised to find that the Solaris ZFS System Administration Guide,
which I would consider the main source of ZFS information, doesn''t seem
to have "Zettabyte" anywhere in it. Anyway, both names are official
and correct, but since "Zettabyte" is such a mouthful, "ZFS"
is what gets used most of the time.
> 
> How current is that?   I thought that while "Zettabyte File
System"
> was the original name, use of it was dropped a couple years ago and
> ZFS became the only name.   I don''t see "Zettabyte"
appearing anywhere
> in the ZFS community pages.
> 
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>          Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
> 
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