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Overview

System Requirements:

  • Mac OS X: Snow Leopard (10.6.8), Lion (10.7.4) or Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

  • 64-bit Intel processor running a 64-bit kernel

  • 4GB of RAM, 8GB recommended

  • Additional internal/external hard disks (reformatting required to add ZFS)


ZEVO Community Edition Feature Set

(Not an exhaustive list but highlights the primary ones)

Pool Features

  • Mirrored redundancy (including conversion and splits)
  • RAID-Z redundancy (including single, double and triple parity)
  • Strips comprised of mirrors or raidz (like RAID10)
  • Intent log devices and cache devices
  • Data scrubbing
  • Automatic pool importing and disk onlining (via IOKit probes)
  • Pool expansion via auto-expand (one drive at a time)
  • Automatic pool rollback (for drives that don’t flush correctly)
  • Automatic GPT labeling during zpool create

Filesystem Features

  • Snapshots including ".zfs" browsing, hold & release and "diff" viewing
  • Replication using zfs send/receive
  • Compression (multiple compression schemes available)
  • Multiple filesystems (each with an associated proxy device)
  • Space Quotas — both filesystem and user quotas supported
  • Dynamic block sizes with an option to set a fixed record size
  • Both case-insensitive and case-sensitive filesystems supported
  • Full Mac OSX Unicode support (using expected formD unicode)
  • ACL support (using native Mac OS X compatible ACL format)

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