Several years ago, the ZFS on Linux (ZoL) project successfully ported the Enterprise-grade ZFS file-system (originally developed by SUN Microsystems) to Linux. It was stable, safe and secure. In the ...

The fundamental problem is that unless your OS vendor coordinates ZFS updates with kernel updates, the burden falls on you to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this video, LLNL’s Brian Behlendorf presents ZFS on Linux for Lustre. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 12, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

ZFS will come pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04, a move that the Software Freedom Conservancy says violates the GNU GPL license.rn I recently started using ZFS to build my file and media server with ...