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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>
References:  <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=20

Thanks

Joe B

> On Nov 6, 2022, at 6:37 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn Sun, 6 Nov 2022 09:26:22 -0500
> Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
>=20
>>> On Nov 6, 2022, at 3:43 AM, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>=

>>> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> 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.=

>>=20
>>=20
>> Although you don't significantly benefit from ZFS' resiliency features in=

>> a single-disk setup (though there is still "copies=3DN":), you do still
>> significantly benefit from the other huge feature of using ZFS: its
>=20
>    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 o=
f
> a data security focus :)
>=20
> --=20
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
>=20



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