Sun's homegrown operating system, Solaris, followed Darwin down the open-source path a few years ago, and since then, Apple's demonstrated some interest in adopting some of the code from that other ...

A new long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu is coming out in April, and Canonical just announced a major addition that will please anyone interested in file storage. Ubuntu 16.04 will include the ...

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple ...

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple ...

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 your network-attached storage (NAS) device, you have a few options for the filesystem. You could choose to run absolutely anything you desire, but I'm here to tell you that the correct ...

Many bleeding-edge Mac geeks are mourning the death of the project to implement the ZFS filesystem on the Mac. The Apple-backed project to port ZFS to the Mac has been officially discontinued, ...

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 ...

The choice of file system matters quite a lot when it comes to storing data, especially when you're working with a lot of it. Your typical network-attached storage (NAS) may use EXT4 or BTRFS, and ...

Almost every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a filesystem. Learn more about some commonly used Linux filesystem types. Linux supports quite a few filesystem types. Your ...

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