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ZFS deduplication is the best way to save space on your NAS, but there's a downside nobody talks about

If you're running a NAS or considering building one, you've likely come across the term ZFS. On paper, it sounds like the perfect file system for a NAS. The file system promises reliability, ...
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Nexenta Adds Dedupe To Open-Source ZFS Storage

Nexenta's new NexentaStor 3.0 is the first commercial storage appliance software to incorporate in-line data dedupe with open-source ZFS, said Evan Powell, CEO of the Portland, Ore.-based storage ...
Ars Technica

ZFS filesystem will be built into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default

A new long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu is coming out in April, and Canonical just announced a major addition that will please anyone interested in file storage. Ubuntu 16.04 will include the ...
dbta

Oracle to Acquire ZFS Technology Provider GreenBytes

Oracle said it has agreed to acquire GreenBytes, a provider of ZFS technology with domain expertise in the areas of deduplication, replication, and virtualization. Oracle said that GreenBytes' ...
TweakTown

Infortrend Deduplication in Action - Creating more NAS storage space

The last time we saw the Infortrend EonNAS Pro 510 was in our review that covered the layout and the performance under traditional tests. What we didn't manage to test was the performance with ...