Ubuntu 16.04’s support for the ZFS file system is one of many useful enterprise features on top of all the Linux desktop polish in the new OS. But Linux distributions have avoided shipping ZFS support ...

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 ...

Expected to arrive several years ago in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," Sun's ZFS file system was early in the year announced for release in Snow Leopard Server. However, Apple this week pulled the plug on ...

Promising better data integrity, start-up Ten's Complement has released a new file system for Macs based on Oracle's ZFS. It's an approach Apple began but dropped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Getting more from my NAS with a single upgrade.

I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of its DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple completed all but the fiddliest finishing touches without help ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Apple collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s ...

Sun's homegrown operating system, Solaris, followed Darwin down the open-source path a few years ago, and since then, Apple's demonstrated some interest in adopting some of the code from that other ...

Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be ...

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 ...