Hey 👋 Love the 2.5admins podcast!
Assuming that you all use ZFS on your laptops as well - do you buy laptops that offer multiple SSD slots (e.g., 2x NVMe or 1x NVMe + 1x SATA) so that you can set up mirrored vdevs?
Or do you run ZFS as a single-disk configuration on your laptops, e.g., because not enough suitable laptop options exist? If the latter, how do you handle the case that a corruption is detected on your single-disk ZFS?
@numbleroot @allanjude @joeress typically, single-disk. If I happen to end up with a laptop with multiple bays, I'll cheerfully use both and grab some redundancy, but I don't try super hard to GET such a laptop.
I use replication to back up anything I care about hourly, daily, and monthly. That includes anything I care about on a laptop, so if the laptop loses a drive, it's an uptime hit--not a disaster recovery hit.
@jimsalter @allanjude @joeress
Fair enough, thanks Jim.
The only scenario I was thinking and worrying about is this uptime hit happening while away/on travel for data on the single disk which are required to operate the laptop (OS or such). I'd imagine the resolution process in such situation to be quite stressful, but maybe not more so than in non-ZFS settings (which of course come with further downsides).
@shom @jimsalter @numbleroot @joeress Haha.
I remember going to Japan with 3 laptops, and getting funny looks. I don't care that many anymore, my old-man back can't do it.
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