When will ZFS become the next file system for the Mac platform? Most likely later than sooner if the examples of other file system transitions are taken into account.

There are many others. You can find systems to work with, for example, NTFS and a slew of cloud service providers. If this is such a great idea, is there a Windows equivalent? Yes, there is ...

Files are the most basic units of file systems, and they define the boundaries of data. They can be documents, designs, codes, videos, images or, indeed, anything in between.

Meanwhile, Unix-like file systems – including Linux – are implemented in different ways from Windows, and can vary between the numerous flavours (you can change open files in Linux, for example).