Guys who here is using ZFS on Linux and if so how is the performance? I ask because I'm wanting to play around with it on Centos 6.2 however I have often wondered if it is better on Freebsd anyway let ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those of you that get your kicks from file system tech, you might want to check out some recent news from the nice folks at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. As a part of helping to further augment ...

"ZFS is licensed under the CDDL, and the Linux kernel under the GPLv2-only. The project views that both of these are free software licenses, but they’re incompatible with each other," he wrote. "This ...

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