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title: "ZFS — Database Glossary | Xata"
description: "A combined filesystem and volume manager featuring copy-on-write, snapshots, clones, compression, checksumming, and RAID-Z. Used as a storage backend fo..."
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# ZFS

Storage

A combined filesystem and volume manager featuring copy-on-write, snapshots, clones, compression, checksumming, and RAID-Z. Used as a storage backend for database branching systems.

Related terms

Copy-on-Write[zvol](/glossary/zvol)

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