Oracle has released Solaris 10 8/11, an update to the Solaris 10 operating system, designed to improve Oracle Solaris ZFS and Live Upgrade technologies, support the latest SPARC and x86 systems, and ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, which provides enhancements to Oracle Solaris ZFS and Oracle Solaris install technologies, advanced support for the latest SPARC and ...

Oracle has plugged its enterprise software into Sun's ZFS storage appliance line, which has also been updated with twice the storage capacity and three times the processing power. The company unveiled ...

Wikibon recently published a report on the Oracle ZFS storage appliance, ultimately giving it a rather positive review. The IT market research firm has been very critical of Oracle products and ...

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 ...

Extents with dedupe is wasted effort, as the extents will fragment. When dedupe is used (it's in both BTRFS and ZFS), extents are virtually useless, and large blocks are what you need to use instead.