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 ...

A group of open source software developers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have implemented a native Linux port of Sun’s ZFS filesystem. Although the code is functional and ...

Canonical believes it can ship the latest version of Ubuntu with ZFS without risking legal turmoil, but not everyone remains convinced Canonical’s latest release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Oct 17, 2019, 06:05am EDT Oct 18, 2019, 09:45am EDT This article ...