You may have read that Apple is baking ZFS, Sun’s Zettabyte File System, into Leopard. The flavor and extent of ZFS support in Leopard is an open question. ZFS, however, is very real and readily ...

Wikibon recently published a report on the Oracle ZFS storage appliance, ultimately giving it a rather positive review. The IT market research firm has been very critical of Oracle products and ...

File systems guard all the data in your computer, but most are based on 20-30 year old architectures that put your data at risk with every I/O. The open source ZFS from Sun Oracle claims high data ...

In my last article on next-gen filesystems, we did something in between a generic high altitude overview of next-gen filesystems and a walkthrough of some of btrfs’ features and usage. This time, ...

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 ...