A major system upgrade.
A risky configuration change.
Testing a new application.
On traditional filesystems, recovery usually means restoring from backups.
Sometimes it requires reinstalling the system entirely.
OpenZFS provides tools for managing risk.
Snapshots, dataset properties, compression, and encryption can be managed directly by the filesystem.
OpenZFS is more than a filesystem.
It is a filesystem and volume manager designed to simplify storage administration.
