Lately, I've been experimenting with a home server that runs on a ZFS pool on a hard drive array. That setup works great when prioritising capacity and reliability, things that I'm obviously looking ...

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 ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

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 ...

There was recently an interesting article about btrfs in LWN. The most interesting parts of the article are about the implementation of the on-disk format, and there is also a comparison with ZFS ...

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for ...

When looking at ways to improve a ZFS pool, you'd be forgiven for considering a metadata vdev. This is precisely what I did when I wanted to improve the performance by storing all our data on the ...