When setting up your network-attached storage (NAS) device, you have a few options for the filesystem. You could choose to run absolutely anything you desire, but I'm here to tell you that the correct ...

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 ...

zfs create -o acltype=posixacl -o xattr=sa -o atime=off -o compression=lz4 -o quota=18T -o mountpoint=/[redacted] -o encryption=aes-256-gcm \ -o keyformat=passphrase ...

Sun opened its big, fat mouth today and announced that Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X Leopard will use its ZFS file system as its default. (Macs currently use HFS+ with journaling enabled as the default ...

Many of the new features included in this update focus on support for the Oracle Solaris file system, ZFS, with the goal of easing the transition from UFS-based system disks to Oracle Solaris ZFS, ...

Bacula Systems, a global leader in high-security, high-performance backup and recovery solutions, today announced its latest Use Case: native integration and interoperability with the ZFS file system.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Expected to arrive several years ago in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," Sun's ZFS file system was early in the year announced for release in Snow Leopard Server. However, Apple this week pulled the plug on ...