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>>
>> even you need normal performance use gmirror and UFS
>
> I've no objection. If it works for you -- go for it.

both "works". For todays trend of solving everything by more hardware ZFS 
may even have "enough" performance.

But still it is dangerous for a reasons i explained, as well as it 
promotes bad setups and layouts like making single filesystem out of large 
amount of disks. This is bad for no matter what filesystem and RAID setup 
you use, or even what OS.