ZFS: what "the ultimate file system" really means for your desktop -- in...
Now I may just be showing my geek side a bit here, but file systems are awesome. Aside from the fact our machines would be nothing without them, the science behind them is frequently ingenious. And ZFS...
View ArticleSun CEO says NetApp aims to blunt open-source efforts
Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday used his blog to dispute Network Appliance Inc.'s charge that Sun's ZFS file system technology infringes on seven NetApp patents.
View ArticleUpdate on the NetApp-Sun Patent Litigation
You may have read in News Picks recently that Sun won a partial stay in the NetApp patent lawsuit over ZFS, according to IP Law 360:A judge has partly stayed software company Network Appliance Inc.'s...
View ArticleNexenta: Power of OpenSolaris with usability of Linux
While going through the backlog of blogs and news clambering around my newsfeed (I'm really worried how fast I became a workaholic, not having enough time to check the news, in just a few days time) I...
View ArticleApple closes its open source ZFS project
Apple has closed down its project to develop ZFS for Mac OS X. An announcement on the project's site simply says "The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be...
View ArticleSoftware Patents Are Killing ZFS
ZFS as a good example of wonderful software that gets sidelined due to obsession with intellectual monopolies
View ArticleFreeNAS 0.7 adds ZFS support
The FreeNAS developers have announced the availability of version 0.7 of FreeNAS (code named Khasadar), a FreeBSD-based Network-attached storage (NAS) UNIX-like server operating system. FreeNAS...
View Article10 Reasons Why ZFS Rocks
Here are the top 10 features that ZFS fans find insanely great...
View ArticleOpenSolaris and ZFS: The beauty of snapshots.
Two days ago, I ran through a long needed image update to the OpenSolaris 2010.03 preview. I was updating through the pkg update manager from build 129 to build 134. So when I say, it was much needed,...
View ArticleZFS 24 Support via (pygrub & fsimage.iso) patch for Xen 4.0 Dom0 (pvops...
Finally Mark Jonson submitted to xen-devel mailing list patch for ZFS 24 support at Xen 4.0. Patch mentioned bellow was successfully tested at Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.11 on top of Fedora...
View ArticleHow to install PC-BSD on an encrypted ZFS file system
As a desktop distribution built atop FreeBSD, PC-BSD makes available to the desktop user all the cool technologies inside FreeBSD. One of those cool technologies is ZFS, the Zettabyte File System, a...
View ArticleZFS creator leaves Oracle
After 20 incredible years at Sun/Oracle, I have decided to try something new.read more
View ArticlePreview of PC-BSD 9 installer
The current stable release of PC=BSD available for download is version 8.1. Version 8.2 is due sometime very early next year (mid to late January is the likely release time frame), and version 9 much...
View ArticlePC-BSD 8.2 review
PC-BSD 8.2 is the latest stable release of PC-BSD, the FreeBSD-based desktop distribution. The installer sports features not available on the prior stable release. One-click disk encryption, one-click...
View ArticleOpenIndiana 151a Desktop review
OpenIndiana is a distribution of illumos, which is a community fork of OpenSolaris. And OpenSolaris itself was the open source version of Solaris, before it was discontinued by Oracle, after Oracle...
View ArticleZFS: what "the ultimate file system" really means for your desktop -- in...
Now I may just be showing my geek side a bit here, but file systems are awesome. Aside from the fact our machines would be nothing without them, the science behind them is frequently ingenious. And ZFS...
View ArticleSun CEO says NetApp aims to blunt open-source efforts
Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday used his blog to dispute Network Appliance Inc.'s charge that Sun's ZFS file system technology infringes on seven NetApp patents.
View ArticleUpdate on the NetApp-Sun Patent Litigation
You may have read in News Picks recently that Sun won a partial stay in the NetApp patent lawsuit over ZFS, according to IP Law 360:A judge has partly stayed software company Network Appliance Inc.'s...
View ArticleNexenta: Power of OpenSolaris with usability of Linux
While going through the backlog of blogs and news clambering around my newsfeed (I'm really worried how fast I became a workaholic, not having enough time to check the news, in just a few days time) I...
View ArticleApple closes its open source ZFS project
Apple has closed down its project to develop ZFS for Mac OS X. An announcement on the project's site simply says "The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be...
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