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 ...

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

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 support ...

In my last article on next-gen filesystems, we did something in between a generic high altitude overview of next-gen filesystems and a walkthrough of some of btrfs’ features and usage. This time, ...

Canonical believes it can ship the latest version of Ubuntu with ZFS without risking legal turmoil, but not everyone remains convinced Canonical’s latest release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution ...

Cluster File Systems announced late last week that they’ll be moving to Sun’s ZFS file system as the backend for all implementations of their Lustre distributed file system on Linux. (More on this ...

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 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, as ...

Nexenta's new NexentaStor 3.0 is the first commercial storage appliance software to incorporate in-line data dedupe with open-source ZFS, said Evan Powell, CEO of the Portland, Ore.-based storage ...

Dropbox has announced that starting on November 7th 2018, only the ext4 file system will be supported in Linux for synchronizing folders in the Dropbox desktop app. Those Linux users who have synch on ...