Written by J. Moellenkamp
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gzip in ZFS

ZFS is implemented in a modular manner, so it´s relativly easy to integrate you own functionality into the filesystem: Adam Leventhal integrated the gzip compression algorithm into OpenSolaris. For archival purpose this would be quite good choice to have a slower, but more effective file system compression algorithm in the kernel.