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 ...

ZFS compression is the free storage upgrade my NAS needed, but only for some files.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The memory shortage made the decision for me.

ZFS is a file system that provides a way to store and manage large volumes of data, but you must manually install it. ZFS on Linux does more than file organization, so its terminology differs from ...

ZFS on Linux 0.8 (ZoL) brought tons of new features and performance improvements when it was released on May 23. They came after Delphix announced that it was migrating its own product to Linux back ...

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