Tag Archive For: file system

deduplication

Data Deduplication in ZFS – Yes or Not?

When you scroll through the different data storage articles and read about the file systems’ specifications, you might come across such a catchy term as “data deduplication”. In case you ...

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Data Integrity and RAIDZ

ZFS Essentials – Data Integrity & RAIDZ

Today we continue the series of articles that aims at presenting the basics of the ZFS. In today’s article we’re further discussing this topic, focusing on the notions of data ...

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Pooled storage

ZFS Essentials – What Is Pooled Storage?

This article is the second part of the ZFS series of articles and this time we would like to focus on the concept of pooled storage and its component parts. ...

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Introduction to ZFS

ZFS Essentials – Introduction to ZFS

ZFS stands for Zettabyte File System and is a file system originally developed by Sun Microsystems for building next-generation NAS solutions with better security, reliability, and performance. ZFS was designed ...

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