I've been testing a zfs pool using 3 drives I had left over from a computer that I got rid of. Two of them are 160G and the other is 400G. Is it possible to raidz or JBOD them together using the whole ...

We've got a new system that is going to act purely as a backup target for a GlusterFS system we run. I've got two Chenbro 60 disk enclosures plugged into a Dell frontend. One enclosure is full and the ...

You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. It is Sun's invention, yet Sun has opened it to the world, including ZFS ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of creating a RAID1 mirror on Ubuntu 19.10, using ZFS. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data collection ...

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 ...

Unlike ESXi and its paywalled services, Proxmox lets me use every facility on the virtualization platform without forcing me to drop a fortune on a license. Take Proxmox’s clustering support, for ...

It’s somewhat surprising that in the past five years, file systems haven’t changed much on any platform. There are dozens of file systems available for UNIX-like operating systems — ext3, XFS, UFS, ...

Apple's expanded support for ZFS will premiere in Snow Leopard Server before trickling down to the desktop version, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. Read-only support for the ...

ZFS will come pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04, a move that the Software Freedom Conservancy says violates the GNU GPL license.rn I recently started using ZFS to build my file and media server with ...