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Good Day.


I have just managed to get myself a 1.5tb Seagate drive and after reading
all the input from various users I assume zfs would be the file system of
choice for such large volumes?

Are there limitations or downsides using UFS on such a large volume?

And if I do go with ZFS how do I even do that? Create/Format/Mount?

Also are there any tools for recovery off ZFS volumes? Accidental
delete/format/corruption...?


Thanks in advance!