I'm looking to put together a SAN box - 6 2TB Raid Edition SATA drives, 24GB RAM, i7 quad processor. I've done this with simple rsync-and-samba servers on FreeBSD and ZFS quite a bit, but I've never ...

Is there anyone here using ZFS on top of a GELI-encrypted provider on hardware which could be considered "slow" by today's standards? What are the performance implications of doing this? The reason I ...

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 ...

FreeNAS Mini provides administrators the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of its open-source software, despite some exasperation with the Unix/Free BSD software in ...

Two weeks ago, the excellent Building Windows 8 blog posted an in-depth look at the upcoming operating system’s new file system, ReFS. It reminded me of the promise of so many years ago that OS X ...

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 ...