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Feedback on Using ZFS and FreeBSD

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I need to create a server that will be used solely for backing up files. The server will have 2TB of RAID-5 storage to begin with but I may want to add additional storage later on. As such, I am currently considering using FreeBSD + ZFS as the OS and file system. Can anyone point to scenarios where…

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Fix for: Feedback on Using ZFS and FreeBSD

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I've been using FreeBSD 8.0 and subsequently 8.0-stable-February 2010 snapshot to experiment with ZFS for a couple of months. The system has a couple of independent 4-disc RAIDZ1 pools. At first things seemed to go more or less perfectly, though I'v…

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