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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

When setting up my DIY home NAS, one of the things that took a lot of consideration was deciding between ZFS and Btrfs — two of the most popular filesystems. There are a lot of similarities between ...

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 ...

Last Monday in the “Moderated Discussions” forum at realworldtech.com, Linus Torvalds—founding developer and current supreme maintainer of the Linux kernel—answered a user’s question about a year-old ...