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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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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 Delays Solaris Features
News But it won't be until 2006 that Sun releases two more: ZFS (Zettabyte File System), which is designed to improve the reliability, performance and capacity of data storage, and the Linux Application Environment, code-named "Janus", which lets...
[May 13, 2005, 9:35]
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]
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 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 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]
Sun Boosts Open Storage Strategy
News Sun's "open storage" efforts currently focus on the Sun Fire X4500 storage server, which runs OpenSolaris, and the ZFS file system, which includes enterprise storage features, the company said. Sun has put its weight behind open-source storage...
[May 1, 2008, 13:33]
Sun May Choose GPL For Solaris
News For example, Sun's DTrace probe technology or ZFS file system theoretically could be moved to Linux. Sun is considering releasing its Solaris operating system under the General Public License, executives said on Monday, raising the possibility of...
[November 15, 2006, 9:21]
What Torvalds Really Thinks Of Solaris
News They have resurrected the x86 version and added several interesting features -- containers, DTrace, and ZFS, for example -- that are available today in beta versions of Solaris 10. When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands...
[December 21, 2004, 14:20]
Sun Rises On GPL 3 For Linus?
Blog I wonder how this links to the current and rapidly rising interest in Sun's ZFS filing system, which is looking like a really good thing, is open source, is going to be part of Mac OS X Leopard, but is on an incompatible licence to GPL and thus...
[June 11, 2007, 14:43]
Sun In Two Minds About Janus
News Janus had been expected in 2005, but it was delayed until 2006 along with new storage software called ZFS, or Zettabyte File System. Sun Microsystems is guiding the spotlight away from a once-prominent feature of Solaris 10.
[June 16, 2005, 9:55]
