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 Below is a quick overview of ZFS, this is intended as a getting started primer.  For further information on ZFS, please refer to some [[https://pthree.org/2012/04/17/install-zfs-on-debian-gnulinux|excellent documentation]] written by Aaron Toponce. Below is a quick overview of ZFS, this is intended as a getting started primer.  For further information on ZFS, please refer to some [[https://pthree.org/2012/04/17/install-zfs-on-debian-gnulinux|excellent documentation]] written by Aaron Toponce.
  
-===== NOTE =====+==== NOTE====
  
-**For the sake of brevity, devices in this document are referred to as /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc.  One should avoid this and use a full device name path using /dev/disk/by-uuid to uniquely identify drives to avoid boot time failures if device name mappings change.**+>**For the sake of brevity, devices in this document are referred to as /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc.  One should avoid this and use a full device name path using /dev/disk/by-id to uniquely identify drives to avoid boot time failures if device name mappings change.**
  
 ===== Quick Setup ===== ===== Quick Setup =====
 +This quick setup guide will result in the creation of a RAIDZ array. RAIDZ is a redundant array with >3 disks and allowance for a single disk failure. This works well for home setups as a minimal number of disks can be used while still providing redundancy, thus saving money. The performance of this setup will be quite good and can easily saturate multiple gigabit connections.
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 Much like mounting disks with UUIDs in fstab, using the disk id is a much more reliable way to keep track of the disks. There are other ways, noted [[https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/faq#selecting-dev-names-when-creating-a-pool|here]], but they are mainly useful for enterprise setups with many (>8) drives in one server. Much like mounting disks with UUIDs in fstab, using the disk id is a much more reliable way to keep track of the disks. There are other ways, noted [[https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/faq#selecting-dev-names-when-creating-a-pool|here]], but they are mainly useful for enterprise setups with many (>8) drives in one server.
  
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