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Ahmed Kamal writes "Is Linux getting too old for you? Are you interested to see what other systems such as OpenSolaris have to offer?

OpenSolaris has some great features, such as ZFS and dtrace, which make it a ...

Ahmed Kamal writes "Is Linux getting too old for you? Are you interested to see what other systems such as OpenSolaris have to offer?

OpenSolaris has some great features, such as ZFS and dtrace, which make it a ...

Over the last year or so we've seen some opening skirmishes in the coming storage wars: Netapps's lawsuit against Sun over ZFS and the consequent counter-charges, enhanced storage announcements from both EMC ...

Sun today released Solaris 10 6/06, which provides a host of improvements; most notably, this is the first release to support ZFS .

MSa writes "How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view?

Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences between the OS and a typical Linux distro.

Infoworld reports (via MacsimumNews) that Samsung has been working with developers to boost solid state drive (SSD) performance in operating systems.

Samsung announced Wednesday that it has been in talks with Microsoft to boost performance in Window...

Recently Daniel Phillips announced that he is developing a new file system, Tux3. It plans to be a modern file system on level with ZFS and the currently also still in development Btrfs.

An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.0 has been released! It includes HAMMER, DragonFly's brand-new file system supporting advanced features like history, snapshots and various other cool things.

Will it become the new ZFS? Since it is BSD licensed it could also be integrated into various other operating systems."

Up to now, the coolest thing about ZFS, besides really making RAID cheap and easy to implement, has been its ability to silently correct the bit errors that creep in as data is stored, read, and written - a ...

After reading ZDNet storage majordomo Robin Harris' post this morning I couldn't help but ponder the implications of Macs having a native implementation of Sun's ZFS network scalable file system in the latest ...