Unlike a traditional file system, which resides on a single device and thus requires a volume manager to use more than one device, ZFS is built on top of virtual storage pools called zpools. A pool is ...

Fantastic news for nerds who keep up with file systems. Sun’s just accidentally spilled the beans that OS 10.5, aka OS X Leopard, is going to be using ZFS as its default file system. ZFS replaces ...

Yesterday’s Jobsnote certainly lacked plenty of announcements that we wanted to hear, but notably absent—to my ears, anyway—were a couple of things that I very much expected to hear, especially in a ...

So while ZFS has attractive features, you'd still be better of with a FAT32 file system and good backups then a complex RAID system with ZFS and no backups. The only major exception to ...

Apple will not use Sun's ZFS file system in its upcoming Leopard OS, despite claims to the contrary by the inventor of ZFS, Sun. Sun's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz told a conference last ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26302161#p26302161:1lpmu5q6 said: araemo[/url]":1lpmu5q6]A question for Jim.. How do you recommend using ZFS to host ...

Sun spilled the beans about ZFS and Apple's upcoming OS X update, but what is ZFS, and how integral is it to Leopard? Apple collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s part of 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 ...