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10.5: Unmount ZFS filesystems on USB drives
Authored by: jiclark on Jan 06, '09 07:03:12PM

Okay you ZFS experts, how about a link to where we lesser mortals can learn more about this new disk format?? What are it's big advantages?

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John



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10.5: Unmount ZFS filesystems on USB drives
Authored by: asmeurer on Jan 07, '09 10:47:45AM
You could have just clicked on What is ZFS? on the page linked to in the hint. Check it out, it's really cool.

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10.5: Unmount ZFS filesystems on USB drives
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 11, '09 01:51:39PM

ZFS is for the tech heads out there and also is very useful when you have had to manage RAID systems. I have so much space on drives not been used, migrating data is a pain and always a risk..ZFS would allow you to "pool" drive space together dynamically without reformatting ie. i have 3 external drives 300gb,400gb,200gb "pooled" together to provide one drive of 900gb of space i can then add another drive of say 750Gb to this to make the space be 1650GB....

plus the system is very clever with error checking and can support huge amounts of storage space....lets see how it unfolds....i am already impressed and hope for roll out !!!!



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