zFS (IBM file system project)

{{Short description|Distributed storage research}}

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zFS was an IBM research project to develop a distributed, decentralized file system. It was a follow-on to the IBM DSF (Data Sharing Facility) project to build a serverless file system.{{cite web

|url = http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/storage/zFS/

|title = zFS - A Scalable Distributed File System using Object Stores

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160307085823/https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/projects/storage/zFS/

|archive-date = 2016-03-07

|access-date = 2023-11-28

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