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Support in Linux (via ZFSOnLinux^[1]), Solaris, FreeBSD.
Needs GRUB bootloader.
Maximum size of a single zpool is 256 ZiB
Storage devices can be used complete as vdev (no need of partitioning)
Zpools are created once and cannot be resized afterwards. Every volume has access to the full capacity of the zpool, this can be reduced via quota.
It provides forms of redundancy like RAID 1 (mirroring), and RAID 0 (striping) for performance. Also supports RAID 5, RAID 6, etc.
Has its own filesystem with features like compression, copy-on-write, and deduplication.