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 ...

I'm taking a look at my FreeNAS server, and seeing that the file system compression is pretty effective. For example, I see a folder here that's 39GB, but only 30GB on disk. The CPU usage is very low ...

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The choice of file system matters quite a lot when it comes to storing data, especially when you're working with a lot of it. Your typical network-attached storage (NAS) may use EXT4 or BTRFS, and ...

MidnightBSD's Lucas Holt had the great pleasure of announcing this past weekend the release of version 0.7 of his BSD-based computer operating system, which adds numerous new features and ...