Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he does not feel "safe" adding code from ZFS, built by Oracle's Sun Microsystems, to the Linux open source project.

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 ...

Ubuntu 16.04’s support for the ZFS file system is one of many useful enterprise features on top of all the Linux desktop polish in the new OS. But Linux distributions have avoided shipping ZFS ...

Hey all -- I'm trying to migrate from mdadm/lvm to zfs but it feels so different that I can't quite grok the differences. I've created a 'tank' mirror with my nice new shiny 2TB NAS drives zpool ...

Canonical’s latest release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution includes support for a filesystem that could inspire a legal challenge. Ubuntu 16.04 contains OpenZFS, an implementation of Sun ...

ZFS file systems are built on top of the concept of pools or “zpools” as they are referred to in ZFS. Instead of a volume manager sitting on top of multiple drives and adding a fair degree of ...

For those of you that get your kicks from file system tech, you might want to check out some recent news from the nice folks at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. As a part of helping to further augment ...

Right now the biggest barrier to ZFS on Linux is the fact that the licensing conflicts. They both use 'copyleft' free software license, but CDDL has a patent requirement that the GPLv2 doesn't have.

Linux systems use a number of file system types – such as Ext, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and btrfs. Fortunately, there are a number of commands that can look at your file ...