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ZFS RAID-Z partitioning efficiency

Posted November 22nd, 2009 by chris

I’ve finally got around to setting up FreeNAS at home, and testing it out.
Overall so far, I’m very impressed. Tons of features. Where I’ve been a bit hung up is the mystical, magical ZFS.
I’ve been exploring just how it works, and I’ll try to explain it in simpler terms, and fail miserably.
Using ZFS, you create Virtual devices [...]

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