Several years ago, the ZFS on Linux (ZoL) project successfully ported the Enterprise-grade ZFS file-system (originally developed by SUN Microsystems) to Linux. It was stable, safe and secure. In the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The renowned programmer Linus Torvalds has warned users of Linux, the popular open source operating ...

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 ...

Canonical believes it can ship the latest version of Ubuntu with ZFS without risking legal turmoil, but not everyone remains convinced Canonical’s latest release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution ...

Cluster File Systems announced late last week that they’ll be moving to Sun’s ZFS file system as the backend for all implementations of their Lustre distributed file system on Linux. (More on this ...

According to a recently updated post on Lustre.org, to improve the reliability and resilience of the underlying file system on the OSS and MDS components, Lustre will add ZFS support. Lustre ...

Lime Technology, the company behind Unraid, released version 7 of the server operating system at the beginning of January. Unraid is popular on NAS systems as well as home and media servers. The major ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Oct 17, 2019, 06:05am EDT Oct 18, 2019, 09:45am EDT This article ...

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 ...

The choice of file system matters quite a lot when it comes to storing data, especially when you're working with a lot of it. Your typical network-attached storage (NAS) may use EXT4 or BTRFS, and ...