On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:53:17AM -0800, Tor wrote:
> [...] if using redundancy on ZDF

The ZFS Document Format?  ;-)

> uses less disk space as simply getting extra drives and do identical copies,
> with periodic CRC checks of the source material to check the health.

If you create a 2-disk mirror, then it is indeed simply two copies.
But if you create, say, a 5-disk RAID-Z group, then you get 4 data
disks worth of space.

Jeff
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