We've got a new system that is going to act purely as a backup target for a GlusterFS system we run. I've got two Chenbro 60 disk enclosures plugged into a Dell frontend. One enclosure is full and the ...

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple ...

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple ...

I've been testing a zfs pool using 3 drives I had left over from a computer that I got rid of. Two of them are 160G and the other is 400G. Is it possible to raidz or JBOD them together using the whole ...

Apple has seeded version 1.1 of ZFS (Zettabyte File System) for Mac OS X to Developers this week. The preview updates a previous build released on June 26, 2007. In the release notes, Apple confirms ...

You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. It is Sun's invention, yet Sun has opened it to the world, including ZFS ...

When you’re a beginner, choosing a file system for your storage pools may not seem like a huge decision. But once you’ve sunk your fangs into the NAS servers, you’ll realize that picking the ideal ...

You may have read that Apple is baking ZFS, Sun’s Zettabyte File System, into Leopard. The flavor and extent of ZFS support in Leopard is an open question. ZFS, however, is very real and readily ...

It looks like the on again off again reports of support for the newfangled ZFS file system in Leopard are on again, at least according to the latest word from Mac Rumors, which is citing unspecified ...

ZFS and Better File System (Btrfs) are two popular modern file systems. Both are designed with advanced storage features and offer snapshot capabilities, data integrity protection, and highly ...