I’ve long hollered that ZFS is a real storage revolution in the making, but recognized that it still had a way to go before replacing UFS, HFS+, and most volume managers. Well, a little Rhode Island company called greenBytes comes out of stealth today to announce that they’re doing just that – taking the solid [...]
Turning the Page on RAID
September 14, 2008 By 4 Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content. It has been the core technology behind the storage industry since day one, but the sun is setting on traditional RAID technology. After two decades of refinement and fragmentation, we are [...]
ZFS: Super File System!
February 27, 2008 By 2 Comments
ZFS really piques my interest, so I just had to include it in my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar series. Here’s a quick primer for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, and thus are wondering why anyone would get stoked over a filesystem! ZFS (originally “zettabyte file system” but now just ZFS) takes the [...]
