Posts tagged with: zfs

The reality is that, today, ZFS is way better than btrfs in a number of areas, in very concrete ways that make using ZFS a joy and make using btrfs a pain, and make ZFS the only choice for many workloads.  Even in single-disk laptop or desktop configurations, ZFS has a number of advantages over btrfs that will make your life much easier.— How ZFS continues to be better than btrfs — Rudd-O.com in English  Continue reading ►

A very good article by Darren Moffat detailing how you can take advantage of ZFS encryption on Solaris 11.

A colleague posed an interesting issue his customer was having. They were finding their ACLs were not being passed onto the files created within the directory they'd applied the ACLs to, even through they had set the inheritance ACLs as desired.  Continue reading ►

I was quite excited to see Apple include rudimentary ZFS support in OS X several years ago and was quite disappointed when they decided against using and enhancing it within OS and whipped it out of OS X. I suspect there may have been a bit of toy throwing (out of prams) between Apple and Sun way back then, but that's all water under the bridge.  Continue reading ►

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I've just had a "how cool is this" moment. I was browsing through the zfs(1M) man page on OpenSolaris and spotted this excerpt... vscan=on | off Controls whether regular files should be scanned for viruses when a file is opened and closed. In addition to enabling this property, the virus scan service must also be enabled for virus scanning to occur. The default value is off.Huh??? Virus scan???!!! Solaris viruses are almost unheard of. In fact I can only think of the telnet worm. So I did a bit more research and sure enough, ZFS now has the ability to interface with a 3rd party virus scanning engine that can be used on Solaris.  Continue reading ►

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