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- ZFS
- (1) Zettabyte File System A distributed file system from Sun that was added to OpenSolaris in 2005 and Solaris 10 in 2006. With support for 128 bits, compared...
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- ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!
- Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.
- fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...
- Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Apple kicks ZFS in the butt
- CuriousWhat features does ZFS sport that NTFS does not? Which of those are important to data integrity?Reading the IRON File Systems I couldn't help notice that NTFS fared quite well. Do you have any data to suggest that ZFS would fare better than these other file systems?The file systems from...
- Tags: Snow Leopard, ZFS, Apple Inc., file system
- Discussion threads 2009-08-29
- ZFS support falls off of Snow Leopard Server's feature list?
- ZFS support falls off of Snow Leopard Server's feature list?What do you call this? I can't remember.When a company announces that the next version of their software will have this great feature and all the fanboys go nuts and all the bloggers *cough* Paul Murphy *cough* start talking about how...
- Tags: Snow Leopard Server, Snow Leopard, ZFS, server
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun
- Today, Sun announced hundreds of wins across a range of industries for its eco-friendly Sun Storage 7000 series since it was introduced 5 months ago. According to Sun, over 17 petabytes of total space has been purchased, making it "the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever". Sun...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Analytics, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Storage, Hardware, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Flash vs Cash
- Flash vs CashGlobal Marketing CTO = oxymoron?Technical marketing? Is that taught in schools?Having Dtrace being able to scan through the entire stack from OS to storage is the game changer. EVERYONE is interested in system performance, and to do an accurate assessment you need good tools. These do NOT exist...
- Tags: UNIX, Storage, Operating systems, IBM AIX, Oracle Corp., EMC Corp., I/O, file system, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Flash vs Cash
- What really distinguishes the use of flash in Sun's second generation thumbers from its use by competitors like EMC? it's a cache versus cash thing. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Cache, Hard Drive, Solution, Disk, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data, 74XX Series, ZFS, SSD, Storage, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Did a U.S. Supreme court dissent just mandate ZFS for police?
- Did a U.S. Supreme court dissent just mandate ZFS for police?BSometer: 10/10..It remained on the database because of a negligent failure on the part of the reporting county?s police department to clear it....Did you read what you wrote (copy/pasted)?How would ZFS on Solaris or OSX have automagically dealt with this??You...
- Tags: Blogging, Operating systems, UNIX, ZFS, blog, ABM, Please Read
- Discussion threads 2009-02-14
- Western Digital announces
- Western Digital announces Absolutely.....Actually....I would like a 100TB drive.... I want a 2TB Memory Stick Duo chip for my PSP.. or a 2TB micro SD for my Palm.. I can't wait until these things are cheap. Movies take up lots of space... I would like to be able...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Lord, Western Digital Corp., ZFS
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Storage choices
- Storage choicesWhat about the lords of storage?You know, the guys whose entire life is dedicated to carving out disk space? How do these highly paid specialists maintain simple JBODS or 74xx devices? Where are the switches? Where is the fiber? You mean they might have to log into a *gasp*...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, RAID, Servers, ZFS, SAN, storage, CX4-240, Sun 74XX, LORDS, EMC Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solution
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- Can Linux and Solaris be married?
- Can Linux and Solaris be married?Where Linux beats out other *nix competitors mostis in driver support. Just about any off-the-shelf hardware can be made to work and work well with Linux. That, plus the fact that you'd be dealing with another single entity if you chose Solaris, is why OEMs...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Dana, Sun Solaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Nexenta
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Sun's ZFS/Flash initiative
- Sun's ZFS/Flash initiativeFlash sizes?What size flash are we talking about here? There is no way we are flash freezing a 200G database in any flash implementation that I know of.Leading to what?Will this work - as soon and as well -for ZFS on Linux? (and Mac?)If so cue AntonHow...
- Tags: ZFS/Flash initiative, ZFS/Flash, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Sun's ZFS/Flash initiative
- Sun's forthcoming ZFS/Flash products will be interesting enough, and important enough, that most companies will be justified in exploring the technology a bit and perhaps experimenting with it ahead of time using a ramdisk to emulate the flash components. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Backup, Memory, ZFS, Storage Hierarchy, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers
- After reading ZDNet storage majordomo Robin Harris' post this morning I couldn't help but ponder the implications of Macs having a native implementation of Sun's ZFS network scalable file system in the latest versions of Mac OS X Snow Leopard client and Snow Leopard Server. Finally, a compelling reason to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Server, ZFS, Parallels, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard
- Apple announces ZFS on Snow LeopardTimingHow sweet would it would be if App£e could deliver Grand Central and ZFS at the point of WINDOWS 7 release. The marketing people would have a field day!Kudos to Sun for inventing such a great FS.I wonder how long it will take for Apple...
- Tags: RAID, Desktops, ZFS, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication postClarifyLinus would have a difficult time moving the kernel to GPLv3. Many kernel devs have already 'nixed' the idea and Linus, unlike the FSF does not hold the copyrights on all kernel contributions.Since it's been ruled that UNIX is owned by Novell and...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Unixfication, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linus
- Discussion threads 2008-05-18
- Spash Screen for OpenSolaris Live CD (OpenSolaris 2008.05 Release)
- Spash Screen for OpenSolaris Live CD (OpenSolaris 2008.05 Release)Photos of the screen?Ubuntu comes with the ability to take screen shots... does OpenSolaris not include that?Value added over Ubuntu or value removed?Removed, is the correct answer.
- Tags: OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris 2008.05 Release
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard
- ZFS beta now on Mac OS X LeopardYeah, Microsoft hasn't done ANY work with file systems...And people complain about Vista compatibility. You know very well that a new file system, no matter what is going to break legacy applications, and why Microsoft has no choice other to be VERY careful...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, beta, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, WinFS, file system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Sun/NetApp patent dispute heats up
- While Oracle and BEA are duking it out over acquisition price, Sun and NetApp are suing and countersuing each other over patents related to the Unix file system, ZFS. First, Network Appliance sued Sun, claiming that ZFS infringes on seven of its patents, and asked that ZFS be pulled from...
- Tags: Software, Patent, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetApp, ZFS, Storage, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Sun fights back with patents of their own against NetApp
- Jonathan Schwartz is not spoiling for a fight, but he's not shying away from one either. That's the takeaway message in today's blog entry from Sun's spunky CEO. On September 5th, Network Appliances filed a lawsuit against Sun claiming that ZFS infringed on seven of its patents....
- Tags: Software, Patent, Storage Device, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, NetApp, ZFS, Jonathan, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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