zfs newbie

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 18:28:28 -0700
David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> It is 
> my practice to keep my OS instances small enough to fit onto a single 
> "16 GB" device, and to put my data on RAID in a file server.  This 
> allows me to quickly, easily, and reliably take and restore raw binary 
> images of the OS devices.

	I strongly recommend this practice - using a mirrored pair for the
OS device is even better, you can even mirror to an iscsi exported zvol on
the file server in a pinch (ie. laptops) but recovery is fiddly.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>