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>The ZFS name is registered as a trademark of Oracle Corporation; although it was briefly given the retrofitted expanded name "Zettabyte File System", it is no

by erric 9y ago

>The ZFS name is registered as a trademark of Oracle Corporation; although it was briefly given the retrofitted expanded name "Zettabyte File System", it is no longer considered an initialism. —Wikipedia

bringtheaction 9y ago
I don't believe Wikipedia is right. Search site:oracle.com for zettabyte on google and observe the results being documents and blogs from a multitude of years. ZFS being an acronym for Zettabyte File System was neither retrofitted nor all that brief in use it seems. Former employees of Sun Microsystems, I know some of you browse HN. Care to shed some light on this?
- Rapzid 9y ago
  Indeed, LLNL have a humongo Lustre/ZFS cluster and kickstarted the ZFSoL project(mucho gracias to LLNL and Brian Behlendorf) and they refer to it as a Zettabyte File System.
- bcantrill 9y ago
  I wasn't in the room when it happened, but I was probably among the first dozen or so to hear the name -- and it was presented to me as both at once: "ZFS" was both "the last word in filesystems" and (conveniently) a zettabyte. I remember Bonwick quickly pointing out that yes, a yottabyte was larger but "YFS" was passed over for obvious reasons.
  - avar 9y ago
    What's that obvious reason?
    - dijit 9y ago
      "Why? filesystem" I imagine.
    - wyoung2 9y ago
      Because "Z" matches the goal of being "the last word in filesystems" than "Y".
krylon 9y ago
Interestingly, IBM has a filesystem used on the zOS mainframe OS, that is also called ZFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS_(z/OS_file_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS_(z/OS_file_system)