Ubuntu 16.04’s support for the ZFS file system is one of many useful enterprise features on top of all the Linux desktop polish in the new OS. But Linux distributions have avoided shipping ZFS support ...

Guys who here is using ZFS on Linux and if so how is the performance? I ask because I'm wanting to play around with it on Centos 6.2 however I have often wondered if it is better on Freebsd anyway let ...

From the looks of it, ZFS administration is significantly simpler than administration of other complex file systems such as Solaris Disk Suite and Veritas Volume ...

The renowned programmer Linus Torvalds has warned users of Linux, the popular open source operating system he built, not to use an Oracle file system because of possible legal actions, Phoronix's ...

I'm trying to migrate from mdadm/lvm to zfs but it feels so different that I can't quite grok the differences. I've created a 'tank' mirror with my nice new shiny 2TB ...

Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

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Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...