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Re:ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion by Mashimo on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:10AM (#42695246)
It's relatively easy, and yet powerful. Before that I had MDADM + LVM + dm-crypt + ext4, which also worked but all the layers got me into a headache.

Automated snapshots are super easy and fast. Also easy to access if you deleted a file, you don't have to restore the whole snapshot, you can just cp from the hidden .zfs/ folder.

I run it on 6x 8TB disk for a couple of years now. I run it in a raidz2, which means up to 2 disk can die. Would I use it on a single disk on a Desktop? Probably not.

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Re:ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion by redundantly on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:37AM (#42695428)
> Would I use it on a single disk on a Desktop? Probably not.

I do. Snapshots and replication and checksumming are awesome.

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