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Why didn’t I know about ZFS before?

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I have a fileserver at home. I have done for many years now. The first incarnation was based on Fedora Core 3 (which will tell you *exactly* how long ago that was…) and was very simple. I had an old Xbox HDD (8GB Seagate) and 2 shiny new 200GB Western Digiatl drives for storage.

This was also my first major experience with Linux as a whole, so I was trying to keep things simple. So I did a default type install, with LVM on the 2×200GB disks to give one logical 400GB partition.

All was fine and dandy until I wanted to upgrade a couple of years later and not knowing much about LVM, wiped all my data. Yes, ALL my data. I had some important stuff backed up, but a lot of non-critical but frustrating to lose data (many GBs of painstakingly ripped and encoded CDs and Audiobooks for example).

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Written by Chris

August 6th, 2009 at 9:31 am

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