Lately, I've been experimenting with a home server that runs on a ZFS pool on a hard drive array. That setup works great when prioritising capacity and reliability, things that I'm obviously looking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

ZFS on Linux 0.8 (ZoL) brought tons of new features and performance improvements when it was released on May 23. They came after Delphix announced that it was migrating its own product to Linux back ...

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 ...

If you need to expand your cloud solution storage options, a ZFS storage pool might be ideal. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data collection ...

When looking at ways to improve a ZFS pool, you'd be forgiven for considering a metadata vdev. This is precisely what I did when I wanted to improve the performance by storing all our data on the ...