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ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ
Continuing this week’s “making an article so I don’t have to keep typing it” ZFS series… here’s why you should stop using RAIDZ, and start using mirror vdevs instead.
Jim Salter
Well, this was an interesting one. A client’s production XigmaNAS VM, running on UFS2 (because it’s a VM, and ZFS is on the host beneath it) needed expansion today.
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Will ZFS and non-ECC RAM kill your data?
This comes up far too often, so rather than continuing to explain it over and over again, I’m going to try to do a really good job of it once and link to it here.