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DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N Thanks for the reply, I found a series online (YouTube) a couple and they go into detail about Zfs= . For now I'm going to create 3 hard disk in virtualbox and practice. Once I= get that down I will then figure out what to do on a single drive and those= benefits=20 Thanks Joe B > On Nov 6, 2022, at 6:37 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn Sun, 6 Nov 2022 09:26:22 -0500 > Paul Mather wrote: >=20 >>> On Nov 6, 2022, at 3:43 AM, Michael Schuster = >>> wrote: >>>=20 >>> Let me repeat what was written recently (by David Cottlehuber, IIRC): >>> ZFS-based boot environments work fine on a single disk and (IMO) >>> justify using ZFS all by themselves. I wouldn't want to be without them.= >>=20 >>=20 >> Although you don't significantly benefit from ZFS' resiliency features in= >> a single-disk setup (though there is still "copies=3DN":), you do still >> significantly benefit from the other huge feature of using ZFS: its >=20 > You're both quite right I should have said something like "to get > the full benefits of ZFS you need at least two drives". I have something o= f > a data security focus :) >=20 > --=20 > Steve O'Hara-Smith >=20