Re: Zfs Guide

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