> As far as I know, ZFS is either for smart people who want to do something sophisticated or trendy people who want to do something unwise. Or people who want

> As far as I know, ZFS is either for smart people who want to do something sophisticated or trendy people who want to do something unwise. Or people who want data checksums. > Anybody using ZFS or ZFS-like to do some trivial standard RAID setup (unless they are used to and comfortable with ZFS, which is an entirely different story) is just begging to lose data. How? You just... hand it some devices, and it makes a pool. Drive replacement is a single command.