When you’re a beginner, choosing a file system for your storage pools may not seem like a huge decision. But once you’ve sunk your fangs into the NAS servers, you’ll realize that picking the ideal ...

I've been testing a zfs pool using 3 drives I had left over from a computer that I got rid of. Two of them are 160G and the other is 400G. Is it possible to raidz or JBOD them together using the whole ...

Proxmox Linux. ZFS root, 50GB for rpool. Single disk. Almost all of rpool capacity is used, and I don't know where. There were snapshots, but I've deleted them. Code: # zpool list -v NAME SIZE ALLOC ...

Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. It is Sun's invention, yet Sun has opened it to the world, including ZFS ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of creating a RAID1 mirror on Ubuntu 19.10, using ZFS. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data collection ...

Apple's expanded support for ZFS will premiere in Snow Leopard Server before trickling down to the desktop version, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. Read-only support for the ...

The memory shortage made the decision for me.