ZFS

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

Microsystems Inc. for highly scalable storage.

Pool
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.