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 ...

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 ...

ZFS has earned its reputation the hard way. It's one of the few filesystems that genuinely delivers on promises like end-to-end data integrity, self-healing, snapshots that don't feel like a hack, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those of you that get your kicks from file system tech, you might want to check out some recent news from the nice folks at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. As a part of helping to further augment ...

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 ...

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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 ...