ZFS needs a cache to work properly, and the default might be robbing your VMs of performance ...

Unlike a traditional file system, which resides on a single device and thus requires a volume manager to use more than one device, ZFS is built on top of virtual storage pools called zpools. A pool is ...

Fantastic news for nerds who keep up with file systems. Sun’s just accidentally spilled the beans that OS 10.5, aka OS X Leopard, is going to be using ZFS as its default file system. ZFS replaces ...

From the looks of it, ZFS administration is significantly simpler than administration of other complex file systems such as Solaris Disk Suite and Veritas Volume ...

So while ZFS has attractive features, you'd still be better of with a FAT32 file system and good backups then a complex RAID system with ZFS and no backups. The only major exception to ...

File systems last for a lot longer than ten years, and believe me, Apple is designing for the long term. If you read between the lines of many presentations of last year's Flash Memory Summit, THE big ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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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 ...

Sun spilled the beans about ZFS and Apple's upcoming OS X update, but what is ZFS, and how integral is it to Leopard? Apple collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s part of the ...

Apple Inc. collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s part of the company’s culture. So when someone breaks the code of silence, it sets virtual seismographic needles scratching.