This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, ...

resumable replications using the facility introduced in zfs 0.7.0 This version of the zfs-tools suite is used in production on the author's system comprising 7 fileservers, 3400 filesystems, and 550TB ...

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 ...

In my last article on next-gen filesystems, we did something in between a generic high altitude overview of next-gen filesystems and a walkthrough of some of btrfs’ features and usage. This time, ...

There are a myriad of filesystems available for Linux. So why try a new one? They all work, right? They’re not all the same, and some have some very distinct advantages, like ZFS. ZFS is awesome. It’s ...

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 ...

In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, “If you’re not sure what this means, our ...

This article explains some issues about the meaning and enforcement of the GNU General Public License. The specific occasion for this article is the violation of combining Linux with ZFS, and that ...

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 ...