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Having trouble finding the ideal file system for your storage server? Here are five reasons why you should check out ZFS ...
ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was—until it wasn’t In file systems as in all else, Steve Jobs' favor was a fickle thing. Adam H. Leventhal – Jun 27, 2016 4:40 pm ...
It may have been a premeditated outburst or a sudden slip-of-the-lip, but either way Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is claiming that Apple next week will announce a plan to ...
Zettabyte File System (ZFS) is a file system with volume management capabilities. Created by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) in 2005, it has since been developed into one of the most robust file ...
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 ...
ZFS is a 128-bit file system that Sun announced in 2004 but didn’t integrate with its Solaris operating system until 2006. Among ZFS’ selling points is huge capacity, storage pooling, fast ...
The ZFS file system is coming of age in Unraid 7 and the VPN service Tailscale is playing a greater role. An array is no longer absolutely necessary.
Promising better data integrity, start-up Ten's Complement has released a new file system for Macs based on Oracle's ZFS. It's an approach Apple began but dropped. Mac OS X gets ZFS after all--but ...
While ZFS was initially exclusive to Solaris and other Unix-like operating systems, its integration with Linux has opened up a world of possibilities for system administrators and enthusiasts alike.
To work with ZFS, you will need to get used to the various zpool and zfs commands. For example, “zpool create mypool c1t0d0” creates a storage pool on a single disk drive and a file system ...
Apple has ended its two-year-old effort to port Sun's ZFS file system to Mac OS X. On Friday, Apple published a short statement on its Mac OS Forge developer website announcing the shutdown. "The ...
A Sun Microsystems exec this week said ZFS would be the new file system in Apple Inc.'s next operating system, Mac OS X Leopard. So just what the heck is ZFS anyway?