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 ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he does not feel "safe" adding code from ZFS, built by Oracle's Sun Microsystems, to the Linux open source project.

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 ...

Hey all -- 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 NAS drives zpool ...

ZFS file systems are built on top of the concept of pools or “zpools” as they are referred to in ZFS. Instead of a volume manager sitting on top of multiple drives and adding a fair degree of ...

Linux systems use a number of file system types – such as Ext, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and btrfs. Fortunately, there are a number of commands that can look at your file ...

Initially I considered FreeNAS and ran it for a while, but I am more comfortable with Linux and I prefer complete control over my server. So I chose ZFS file system with Ubuntu.

NexentaStor is software used by open-source system builders to build storage appliances based on the open source ZFS file system, Powell said.

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 ...

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 ...