Project Summary
OpenZFS was announced in September 2013 as the truly open source successor to the ZFS project. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X platforms, and a wide range of companies that build products on top of OpenZFS.
OpenZFS is an outstanding storage platform that encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume managers, and more, with consistent reliability, functionality and performance across all distributions.
In a Nutshell, OpenZFS...
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took an estimated 1,761 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2005
ending with its most recent commit over 6 years ago
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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