ZIL/SLOG is part of the bcache featureset. bcache can be a write-through cache, which only improves read performance, or a writeback cache, which makes post-SSD write io sequential. Another advantage ...

ZFS has earned its reputation the hard way. It's one of the few filesystems that genuinely delivers on promises like end-to-end data integrity, self-healing, snapshots that don't feel like a hack, and ...

I tested OpenSolaris earlier this year shortly after the developers announced the project’s first official release. Although I was impressed with the ease of installation and several other aspects of ...

There's no getting around the fact that I'm running out of storage on my NAS. Unfortunately, right now is the worst time to ...

Apple may have given up on the idea of building Sun Microsystems’ ZFS file system into Mac OS X, but one of its engineers has picked up where Apple left off. Don Brady, a former Apple engineer and ...

Apple's expanded support for ZFS will premiere in Snow Leopard Server before trickling down to the desktop version, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. Read-only support for the ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...