Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "ZFS" in English language version.
The largest SI prefix we liked was 'zetta' ('yotta' was out of the question)
Virtual devices cannot be nested, so a mirror or raidz virtual device can only contain files or disks. Mirrors of mirrors (or other combinations) are not allowed.
So we finally decided to unpimp the name back to ZFS, which doesn't stand for anything.
The largest SI prefix we liked was 'zetta' ('yotta' was out of the question)
So we finally decided to unpimp the name back to ZFS, which doesn't stand for anything.