ZFS

Pool

Is a local file system and logical volume manager created by Sun

Microsystems Inc. for highly scalable storage.

A logical group of devices describing the layout and physical characteristics of

the available storage.

Mirror

A virtual device that stores identical copies of data on two or more disks. If
any disk in a mirror fails, any other disk in that mirror can provide the same
data.

RAID-Z

A virtual device that stores data and parity on multiple disks.

Dataset

A generic name for the following ZFS components: clones, file systems,
snapshots, and volumes.

File System

A ZFS dataset of type filesystem that is mounted within the standard system
namespace and behaves like other file systems.

ZFS volume

Is a dataset that represents a block device. ZFS volumes are identified as

devices in the /dev/zvol/{dsk,rdsk}/pool directory.

Snapshot

A read-only copy of a file system or volume at a given point in time.

Clone

A file system whose initial contents are identical to the contents of a

snapshot.