After beeing a long term linux user on my primary server at home. I decided to switch. I begun running out of space on my existing machine, which was running gentoo linux with a RAID-5 Linux md software raid @ 750GB netto capacity and served me well for the last 3 1/2 years.
Well I could have just put in more or bigger hard drives and not make such a big fuzz. But since i saw a presentation of Sun at the Linuxtag 2006, i was intrigued by the capabilities and design of ZFS.
And with all the attention ZFS was getting recently, i began monitoring it’s progress in evolving more thoroughly by reading the zfs-discuss mailing list, and studying all websites, blog-posts and scientific papers I could get my hands on …
The reasons for choosing ZFS :
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