Category Archives: ZFS
ZFS data integrity tested
Robin Harris over at the ZDnet.com Storage Bits blog analyses a new UW-M paper analyzing the fault tolerance claims of ZFS: “File systems guard all the data in your computer, but most are based on 20-30 year old architectures that … Continue reading
iXsystems iX-N4236 Orion II Server Series
The Orion II Storage Server & JBOD Storage Expansion Deliver Unparalleled Storage Density With Redundant Cooling and Powerful Intel® Technologies iXsystems have released the iX-N4236 Orion II Storage Server which is designed to handle storage-intensive tasks while remaining at an … Continue reading
Apple shuts down ZFS open source project
Apple‘s efforts to support the development of ZFS, an advanced file system originally created by Sun, were officially terminated today in a notice posted by MacOS Forge. The tersely worded message only stated that “The ZFS project has been discontinued. … Continue reading
FreeNAS Bash script for ZFS scrubbing
Gimpe has put together a bash script to automatically run a script at predifined intervals to do a scrub on each ZFS pool. Please note, this will only run on FreeNAS 0.7 (not on the 0.6x series as it doesn’t … Continue reading
btrfs: a brief comparison with ZFS
lwn.net has an overview of the history of the btrfs filesystem (wikipedia link). He also touches on the difference and similarities between btrf and ZFS, Sun’s Zetabyte File System, something that I was most intersted in: “People often ask about … Continue reading
SUN ZFS Triple-Parity RAID-Z
The standard in the RAID industry for storage is RAID-6, with recovery from a double drive failure. But it’s not going to be good enough as disk capacities increase, prolonging failed disk rebuild times and so lengthening the window of unrecoverable … Continue reading
OpenSolaris’ ZFS Time Slider
Serverwatch has an good write up of the Opensolaris Time Slider, explaining the background of ZFS and how to use the Tool. “Introduced in November 2008 and updated in the most recent June 2009 OpenSolaris 2009.06 release, Time Slider is … Continue reading
The Btrfs file system (ZFS vs btrfs)
H-online has an interesting post explaining Btrfs, the designated “next generation file system” for Linux: Btrfs, the designated “next generation file system” for Linux, offers a range of features that are not available in other Linux file systems – and … Continue reading
Building a NAS with OpenSolaris and ZFS
Adam Retter has a post about his storage server based on Solaris with ZFS: In deciding to build my own NAS, after having identified my requirements in Part 1, I set about searching for the perfect hardware and software combination… … Continue reading
Sun adds Solid State Drive management to ZFS
Sun Microsystems has added the solid state drive (SSD) management technology from its popular “Amber Road” data storage systems to the latest release of the open source ZFS file system. OpenSolaris 2009.06 includes a number of updates to the ZFS … Continue reading
