Guys who here is using ZFS on Linux and if so how is the performance? I ask because I'm wanting to play around with it on Centos 6.2 however I have often wondered if it is better on Freebsd anyway let ...

In the Other Hardware ZFS NAS thread, I expressed some frustration over ZFS not being available for Linux because of incompatible opensource licenses. It just doesn't make any sense to me. If I buy a ...

Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems – and now owned by Oracle – due to licensing issues. As ...

Here's what ZFS is all about—and why I'd love it if it were simpler to use. ZFS, originally an acronym for Zettabyte File System, is an advanced, combined file system and logical volume manager ...

ZFS will come pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04, a move that the Software Freedom Conservancy says violates the GNU GPL license.rn I recently started using ZFS to build my file and media server with ...

Richard Stallman looks at the GPL and how it is incompatible with the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), which is the license used by ZFS. "Likewise, the copyright holders of ZFS (the ...