OpenZFS 2.1 comes with much-awaited support for dRAID. Read about the benefits it brings, such as integrated distributed hot spares, allowing for faster resilvering.

A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.

Digital Forensics & Incident Response & Reverse Engineering

From its birth at Sun, ZFS grew exponentially in popularity. ZFS was revolutionary as it allowed anyone with any budget to have access to enterprise-level storage solutions. Read about the troublesome history of ZFS and the events that lead to the rise of…

So somebody tweeted about the Seagate Mach.2, a harddisk with two independent heads “combs”, and I commented in german: “It’s two drives in one chassis, even shown as two drives. And it still is rotating rust, so slow with seeks. Linear IO will be fine.”

On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your…

MySQL performance on ZFS improved over the last few years and is now comparable with ext4 for IO bound workloads

In a combined filesystem and storage session at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM), Dennis Zhou wanted to talk
about discard, which is the process of sending commands
(e.g. TRIM) to block devices to indicate
blocks…