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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon' by StavrosK on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:17AM (#23898083)
You can't add disks to a vdev, though, which is what most people with a home NAS (including me) want.
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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon' by trasz on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:34PM (#23899447)
You can add them to RAID0/1 vdevs; you can't add them to RAIDZ vdevs. Which you don't have if you don't run ZFS. You might have RAID5, but then you also have a write hole.
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