I don't mean this to be too BattleFronty, but I'm trying to get an idea of the pro's/con's of each setup. I'll be using 4x500GB SATA drives in a RAID-Z or RAID-5. Using mdadm under Ubuntu server looks ...

FYI linux sw raid (mdadm) can do online integrity checks to make sure data is accessible. On some systems this is up to the sysadmin, whereas on Debian and Ubuntu it runs automatically on the first ...

Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyone's attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. It's ...

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 ...

It seems like only yesterday that I read Jeff Bonwick's blog entry "ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems". It was Halloween of 2005 that ZFS was fully integrated into Sun Microsystem's Solaris, and the ...

ZFS is the successor to the Unix File System used in Solaris, and is an advanced file system equipped with snapshot, copy-on-write, and RAID functions. The open source implementation of ZFS could not ...

ZFS and Better File System (Btrfs) are two popular modern file systems. Both are designed with advanced storage features and offer snapshot capabilities, data integrity protection, and highly ...

Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...