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Date:      Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:03:08 -0400
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   deciding UFS vs ZFS
Message-ID:  <20140713190308.GA9678@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>

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Hi,

We have two 'big' filesystems, UFS and ZFS. How do people decide when
to use which? I'm trying to build a "decision matrix" of when to use
each.

My virtualization system runs KVM, so I use UFS on VMs. Restoring
ZFS disk images via dd can be problematic.

For larger boxes running on real iron, I use ZFS.

But there's a whole range of conditions between these two. And the way
to fill in the gray spaces is to ask.

So, how do you decide to use which filesystem?

==ml

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