So my SE at Xiotech and I were chatting about using ZFS and the now native dedup for hosting some VDI tests I'm doing and being an educational institution closed for winter break we played around with ...

The Zettabyte File System (ZFS), as a back-end file system to Lustre, has had support in Lustre for a long time. But in the last few years it has gained greater importance, likely due to Lustre’s push ...

In this video, Brendan Gregg from Joyent presents ZFS Performance Analysis and Tools at ZFS Day 2012 in San Francisco. The performance of the file system, or disks, is often the target of blame, ...

One of the 4TB drives is starting to throw errors when scrubbing. HDD prices are still quite high and the whole pool has ~13TB free. I'm considering using the zpool remove command to remove the ...

It’s somewhat surprising that in the past five years, file systems haven’t changed much on any platform. There are dozens of file systems available for UNIX-like operating systems — ext3, XFS, UFS, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...