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 ...

This tool/script will create and replicate ZFS datasets/file systems using snapshots between source and target hosts on *nix systems. Its intended to be run primarily via cron as the root user but can ...

The zfs-compression-evaluator script evaluates and compares different compression algorithms based on their performance metrics. It uses data from a provided Excel file containing details about ...

I've been doing home backups with rdiff-backup for ages. I like it because: the latest backup is just a copy of the backed up filesystem which you can browse without using rdiff-backup incremental; ...

This Monday, ZFS on Linux lead developer Brian Behlendorf published the OpenZFS 2.0.0 release to GitHub. Along with quite a lot of new features, the announcement brings an end to the former ...

ZFS and Better File System (Btrfs) are two popular modern file systems. Both are designed with advanced storage features and offer snapshot capabilities, data integrity protection, and highly ...

If you're running a NAS or considering building one, you've likely come across the term ZFS. On paper, it sounds like the perfect file system for a NAS. The file system promises reliability, ...

Version 8.0 of the QuestDB time series database is said to be significantly faster. Furthermore, the open source version now also supports ZFS compression. After just over a month, the developers of ...