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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:12:21 +0800
From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
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Subject: Re: deciding UFS vs ZFS
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Hi,

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:40:14 -0500
Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> wrote:

> On 2014.07.13 18:14, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > use UFS as long as you are working with a single disk and ZFS the
> > moment you have more than one disk.
> Checksumming and the COW features make ZFS quite attractive for
> single-device pools as well.

there are also other features which could make ZFS attractive for
single disk systems. But moving to a second disk only makes ZFS not
just attractive but basically a must.

Erich