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* ZFS handles everything altogether including parity on permissions
* ZFS handles everything altogether including parity on permissions
;Cons
;Cons
* The main con is that ZFS is less expandable. You need to buy all of your drives up front and can only expand by entire vdevs.
* The main con is that ZFS is less expandable.
** You can only expand by replacing every drive or adding entire vdevs.
* If many drives die, i.e. >2 for raidz2, you lose all your data.
* If many drives die, i.e. >2 for raidz2, you lose all your data.