Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 13:04:23 -0800 From: Joe B <jb1277976@gmail.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zfs Guide Message-ID: <805FA79F-8AEE-421E-A56C-BE16209B8CAD@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20221106143708.a72fd78c67eb4b055b138449@sohara.org>
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Thanks for the reply, I found a series online (YouTube) a couple and they go into detail about Zfs. For now I'm going to create 3 hard disk in virtualbox and practice. Once I get that down I will then figure out what to do on a single drive and those benefits Thanks Joe B > On Nov 6, 2022, at 6:37 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 09:26:22 -0500 > Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > >>> On Nov 6, 2022, at 3:43 AM, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Let me repeat what was written recently (by David Cottlehuber, IIRC): >>> ZFS-based boot environments work fine on a single disk and (IMO) >>> justify using ZFS all by themselves. I wouldn't want to be without them. >> >> >> Although you don't significantly benefit from ZFS' resiliency features in >> a single-disk setup (though there is still "copies=N":), you do still >> significantly benefit from the other huge feature of using ZFS: its > > You're both quite right I should have said something like "to get > the full benefits of ZFS you need at least two drives". I have something of > a data security focus :) > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> >help
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