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Why? Do you have half a SSD to spare for checksums and additional metadata? Or does the common OS X user have several disks that he wants to see as a logical vo
by batista 14y ago
Why? Do you have half a SSD to spare for checksums and additional metadata? Or does the common OS X user have several disks that he wants to see as a logical volume, while also understanding the risks after one of the dies? Do they even have the storage redundancy needed?
- eli 14y agoDo I want the option to trade disk space for greatly increased reliability? You betcha. Also, snapshotting.
- batista 14y agoSingle drive reliability means nothing. In a SSD, doubly so. ZFS won't kill the need for external backups, even in the least.
- eli 14y agoWho said anything about replacing external backups?
- batista 14y agoYou wrote about "greatly increased reliability". Which you don't get at all out of your 1-disk laptop/iMac with ZFS. For this use case, both filesystems as just as (un)reliable: a simple disk failure and you're out. So, all reliability comes, as before, from backups, not from anything fs inherent. You only get to see the ZFS advantage in a much larger, multi-disk setup.
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