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Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?
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This thread confused me. Is the conclusion of this thread that ZFS is slow and
breaks beyond recovery? I keep seeing two sides to this coin. I can't decide
whether to use ZFS or hardware RAID. Why does EMC use hardware RAID?

-Simon