Ok, I just setup a Freenas server using mirroring instead of RAIDZ(thanks Mr. Salter for your awesome article!) and I would like to know if there is a recommendation for periodic snapshots in the ZFS ...

If you’re new to the ZFS hype train, you might wonder why a new filesystem option in an OS installer is a big deal. So here’s a quick explanation: ZFS is a copy-on-write filesystem, which can take ...

In this video from the DDN User Group at ISC 2018, Steve Simms from Indiana University presents: Lustre / ZFS at Indiana University. Data migrations can be time-consuming and tedious, often requiring ...

When setting up my DIY home NAS, one of the things that took a lot of consideration was deciding between ZFS and Btrfs — two of the most popular filesystems. There are a lot of similarities between ...

Backup made easy ZFS does something called snapshot copy, which creates a copy of all your data at whatever point in time you want. Copy the snapshot up to a disk, tape or NAS box and you are backed ...

The Zettabyte File System (ZFS), as a back-end file system to Lustre, has had support in Lustre for a long time. But in the last few years it has gained greater importance, likely due to Lustre’s push ...