ZFS is the successor to the Unix File System used in Solaris, and is an advanced file system equipped with snapshot, copy-on-write, and RAID functions. The open source implementation of ZFS could not ...

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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 ...

A file system with extra protection from unexpected shutdown corruption seems like a real winner to me. I've nearly lost my desktop's hard drive a few times to brownouts in my area forcing my machine ...

The Zettabyte File System (ZFS), as a back-end file system to Lustre, has had support in Lustre for a long time. But in the last few years it has gained greater importance, likely due to Lustre’s push ...

Version 8.0 of the QuestDB time series database is said to be significantly faster. Furthermore, the open source version now also supports ZFS compression. After just over a month, the developers of ...

The CRN Test Center this month took a close look at the ZFS Storage Appliance 7420, Oracle's latest low-cost, flash-optimized storage hardware for high-performance transactional systems. In the ZFS, ...