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On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> I like ZFS, but I decided that my puny little 25W 1.3 ghz CPU was gonna choke 
> on checksums & not get anything else done, hence the switch back to UFS.

Checksums are not a problem, RAM can be.

> I came up w/ a slightly hairbrained solution. I created a stripe of 
> the 3 remaining 20 GB partitions, copied everything under /usr over to 
> it, & plan to mount it as /usr.

You're aware that this is RAID0, and failure of any of the drives will 
cause the whole thing to fail?