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I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB ext=
ernal USB drive connected to that I use as a file server.  That PC is runni=
ng XP.  It has recently become infected with some sort of virus.  I'd like =
to replace it with FreeBSD running ZFS + Samba (I need to access it from a =
OS X machine and a Windows 7 box).



1) Will FreeBSD be able to detect and use my TB hard drive as ZFS disk?  Ri=
ght now it is only a single disk, but later on I'll and a second disk and s=
etup a mirror.  Even as a single disk, the checksumming ability would be ni=
ce.



2)Assume I get everything setup in regards to step 1 and my OS disk dies.  =
How do I go about importing the ZFS external disk into another FreeBSD inst=
allation?



Thanks for all of the help!