Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 09:43:23 +0100 From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Zfs Guide Message-ID: <CADqw_gK4kf6zQVbvrBtYQ1WQ=gXKg--z53faO_a_Z6COWz9GXw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20221105210111.2b0d80ba5ffb5deca8beed22@sohara.org> References: <20221105191506.ufa4nexieim3dhzu@freebsd> <20221105210111.2b0d80ba5ffb5deca8beed22@sohara.org>
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--0000000000007a97e705ecc94da7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 22:01 Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 12:15:06 -0700 > Joe B <jb1277976@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So when i installed freeBSD about 5 days ago i noticed that it auto did > > ZFS pool and everything didn't know why but i went with it. Trying to > > understand it i looked online for some guides and the zfs fs seems very > > intresting, snapshots, compression everything. It seems that it was > > really made for two drives not one. i kinda understand if my internal > > hdd goes out then i would have a backup. > > Two drives is a minimum for ZFS to be really useful, it does work > fine on a single drive and it has benefits over many other filesystems even > without redundancy but it is the integration of redundancy and error > handling into the filesystem that makes ZFS special. > 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. Regards Michael --0000000000007a97e705ecc94da7 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" clas= s=3D"gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 22:01 Steve O'Hara-Smith <<a h= ref=3D"mailto:steve@sohara.org" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">steve@= sohara.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style= =3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, = 5 Nov 2022 12:15:06 -0700<br> Joe B <<a href=3D"mailto:jb1277976@gmail.com" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferr= er" target=3D"_blank">jb1277976@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > So when i installed freeBSD about 5 days ago i noticed that it auto di= d<br> > ZFS pool and everything didn't know why but i went with it. Trying= to<br> > understand it i looked online for some guides and the zfs fs seems ver= y<br> > intresting, snapshots, compression everything. It seems that it was<br= > > really made for two drives not one. i kinda understand if my internal<= br> > hdd goes out then i would have a backup. <br> <br> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Two drives is a minimum for ZFS to be really us= eful, it does work<br> fine on a single drive and it has benefits over many other filesystems even= <br> without redundancy but it is the integration of redundancy and error<br> handling into the filesystem that makes ZFS special.<br></blockquote></div>= </div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">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.=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></d= iv><div dir=3D"auto">Regards=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto">Michael=C2=A0</di= v></div> --0000000000007a97e705ecc94da7--
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