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RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS

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This is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS and adapted to a microkernel architecture.

Redox had a read-only ZFS driver but it was abandoned because of the monolithic nature of ZFS that created problems with the Redox microkernel design.

(It's a replacement for TFS)

Current features:

Compatible with Redox and Linux (FUSE)

Copy-on-write

Data/metadata checksums

Transparent encryption

Standard Unix file attributes

File/directory size limit up to 193TiB (212TB)

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