Re: Zfs Guide

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>
>