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ZFS still gives benefits with one disk. Ignoring the data integrity stuff (which is better with ZFS even if you have no ECC), you also get snapshotting, potentially boot environments, you can backup your data to another machine using zfs-send, you get native encryption (including encrypted backups for free), highly performant compression, and (depending on your system) a nice memory cache algorithm.



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