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 ...

The choice of file system matters quite a lot when it comes to storing data, especially when you're working with a lot of it. Your typical network-attached storage (NAS) may use EXT4 or BTRFS, and ...

Apple has ended its two-year-old effort to port Sun's ZFS file system to Mac OS X. On Friday, Apple published a short statement on its Mac OS Forge developer website announcing the shutdown. "The ZFS ...

Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz dropped a bombshell on the computer world this week when he announced that ZFS would be the filesystem that Leopard uses. Now the mac community is probably divided into two ...

The ZFS filesystem was developed by the late Sun Microsystems. Like many other technologies, Sun hung on to it and then released it under some kind of open licence at a time when it would make little ...

It may have been a premeditated outburst or a sudden slip-of-the-lip, but either way Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is claiming that Apple next week will announce a plan to replace ...

Does ZFS support using random, differently-sized drives nowadays? Or converting between different RAID-profiles on-the-fly? Increasing or decreasing the number of drives in the array? I'm not trying ...