Tag Archive For: zvol

Copy-on-write and snapshots

ZFS Essentials – Copy-on-write & Snapshots

This article provides information about concepts that stand behind the copy-on-write mechanism as well as snapshots and clones used in the ZFS system. Copy-on-write On a predominant number of file ...

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Data Integrity and RAIDZ

ZFS Essentials – Data Integrity & RAIDZ

Today we continue the series of articles that aims at presenting the basics of the ZFS. In today’s article we’re further discussing this topic, focusing on the notions of data ...

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Pooled storage

ZFS Essentials – What Is Pooled Storage?

This article is the second part of the ZFS series of articles and this time we would like to focus on the concept of pooled storage and its component parts. ...

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