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Subject: to gmirror or to ZFS
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:01:47 -0700
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... thats the question :)

At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS.

However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a =
dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it.  I didn't ask for SSD sys =
drives, this system just came with em.

This is more of a best practices q.

Thanks in advance,

- aurf=