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ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability)
White Papers Sun's recent addition to the Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System, ZFS, is an innovative ground-up redesign of the traditional UNIX file system. Even though it's still early in its life cycle, ZFS has made such an impact that other UNIX vendors and...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Apple drops ZFS project
News Apple has ended its two-year-old effort to port Sun's ZFS file system to Mac OS X. The ZFS project has been discontinued. Sun began developing the 128-bit ZFS file system for the Solaris operating system in 2004.
[October 26, 2009, 15:50]
Apple denies use of ZFS in Leopard
News Apple will not use Sun's ZFS file system in its upcoming Leopard OS, despite claims to the contrary by the inventor of ZFS, Sun. Sun's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz told a conference last Wednesday that Apple was going to use ZFS in Leopard...
[June 13, 2007, 12:45]
Mac OS X to adopt ZFS
Blog So Apple's forthcoming operating system will use the next-generation file system ZFS, it's been confirmed. Sun Microsystems' chief executive Jonathan Schwartz gave the secret away on Wednesday when he said ZFS would succeed HFS+ in Leopard, Apple's...
[June 7, 2007, 16:45]
Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS: A Performance Study Based on Commercial Workloads
White Papers This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Solaris ZFS and Microsoft Server 2003 NTFS: File System Performance
White Papers The Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduces a new data management technology - the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Solaris ZFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ext3: File System Performance
White Papers The Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduces a major new data management technology - the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Mac OS X to adopt ZFS
Blog Comment ZFS looks really very interesting indeed, and if the claims are true it will be revolutionary. I spent a little too much of my young life working on a networked server product (MainLAN 386, about which not much should be said), so got down and...
[June 8, 2007, 9:14]
ZFS Best Practices With NetApp: Guidelines for Configuring the ZFS File System With Network Appliance Storage Arrays
White Papers This paper contains best practices and guidelines for configuring the new ZFS file system with Network Appliance storage systems. The Solaris ZFS file system is a new file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
NetApp files patent suit against Sun
News NetApp has filed a patent lawsuit against Sun, alleging that Sun's ZFS storage software, a key element to its Solaris operating system, violates seven of its patents. NetApp is asking the court to issue a permanent injunction against Sun to prevent...
[September 6, 2007, 11:44]
Sun boosts revenue with free software strategy
News Schwartz showed a world map with clusters of dots representing all the people who registered with Sun when they downloaded ZFS (an open-source storage file system) in the past 12 months. Schwartz pointed to Thumper (Sun Fire X4500 Server), a server...
[June 17, 2008, 8:11]
Sun adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris
News In addition, Sun's ZFS file system now has native solid-state drive (SSD) management technology, meant to allow system administrators to fine-tune SSD performance. Sun has also given ZFS native support for Microsoft's CIFS networked file system via...
[June 1, 2009, 15:40]
Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPLv3
News Commonly cited advantages for intermingling include adding Solaris's ZFS (Zettabyte File System) storage software or DTrace probing utility to Linux or adding Linux's broader hardware support to Solaris — though technical challenges still are an...
[June 13, 2007, 9:15]
Sun updates OpenSolaris
News The new release, version 2008.11, includes features intended to address such issues, while emphasising Solaris-only features such as the ZFS file system. ZFS includes built-in support for snapshots, which are used to preserve a particular state of...
[December 5, 2008, 16:47]
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
News Sun's Solaris operating system already has built-in features for optimising the performance of flash-based storage, such as the Hybrid Storage Pools feature built into the ZFS filesystem. In addition, the June release of OpenSolaris included SSD...
[October 13, 2009, 17:40]
Sun to match Red Hat pricing model
News The "NextGen" file system, called ZFS, which uses a 128-bit addressing scheme to accommodate the growth into the exabyte size range that data sets will experience in the next 10 to 15 years, Loiacono said.
[April 1, 2004, 8:50]
Video: Mac OS X to adopt Sun tech
News During a presentation on Wednesday in Washington, DC, Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said his company's open-source file system, ZFS, will be introduced into Mac OS X. Schwartz also showed off Sun's newest "Thumper" hybrid storage-server...
[June 7, 2007, 17:30]
Sun plans Flash-based servers, storage for 2009
News This would build upon Sun's earlier embrace of Flash in its ZFS storage platform. Sun plans to introduce Flash-based servers and storage systems in early 2009, according to company sources. Sun officials have argued that Flash pushes down the total...
[December 10, 2008, 10:45]
Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops
News Time Slider lets us integrate ZFS [file system] snapshots taken automatically by the system with a standard window environment file browser," said Stephen Hahn, OpenSolaris project lead. Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the...
[December 11, 2008, 13:15]
Sun listens to customers and adds PostgreSQL support
News At the same press conference, Sun also said it is releasing its 128-bit file systems, Solaris ZFS, into the OpenSolaris open source project. Sun has thrown its weight behind PostgreSQL, announcing plans to distribute and support the open source...
[November 18, 2005, 9:10]
