A dive into filesystems – ZFS – part 1

Reading time: 5 minutesI’m starting a series of posts about ZFS. I will try to provide as much as possible architectural diagrams and code examples. The series is for people wanting to learn more about general filesystem architecture, especially about ZFS (OpenZFS). I will restrict myself for now to the implementation and architecture on Illumos, the open source fork of OpenSolaris. Let’s start with the higher level abstraction, the Virtual File System. Like …

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OpenZFS European Conference

Reading time: 4 minutesOn the 20th of May, this year, the first European Open ZFS conference was held in Paris. It was a great event and an absolute privilege for us to participate as presenters and sponsors. The main guest was the co-creator of ZFS, Matt Ahrens. We started by having Matt present the current state of OpenZFS, future enhancements and features that are on the roadmap. It all began with a nice …

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High Availability Demo

Reading time: 1 minuteOne picture is worth a thousand words. One movie is worth a thousand pictures. That’s why we decided to show you how awesome and simple is to configure our new High Availability feature on Syneto Storage OS.

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The Depths of Software Defined Storage – An Infographic

Reading time: 1 minuteHere’s an infographic which includes all there is to know about Syneto Storage. Take a look:

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Storage OS powered by Illumos vs. Linux. Which is better?

Reading time: 3 minutesThere’s a question which we’re often asked here at Syneto: Isn’t Storage OS powered with Illumos, with the ZFS filesystem comparable to a Linux powered storage system with Logical Volume Manager, RAID protection and the Ext4 filesystem? Frankly, no. And this is not just marketing talk. In this article we’ll study the technical feature differences that set Storage OS apart from a Linux data storage solution. RAIDz There’s a bunch …

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