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 ...

In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

A group of open source software developers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have implemented a native Linux port of Sun's ZFS filesystem. Although the code is functional and ...

It seems like only yesterday that I read Jeff Bonwick's blog entry "ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems". It was Halloween of 2005 that ZFS was fully integrated into Sun Microsystem's Solaris, and the ...

Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems – and now owned by Oracle – due to licensing issues. As ...

Key ZFS data integrity features work on Linux like they do on other platforms. ZFS runtime stability on Linux is comparable to other filesystems, with certain exceptions that I document below. ZoL is ...

Almost every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a filesystem. Learn more about some commonly used Linux filesystem types. Linux supports quite a few filesystem types. Your ...

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 ...

When setting up my DIY home NAS, one of the things that took a lot of consideration was deciding between ZFS and Btrfs — two of the most popular filesystems. There are a lot of similarities between ...

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