Switching to ZFS - Am I Doing This Right?

[bbddpp]

After an unfortunate data loss on one of my UFS volumes in my box after a power loss, I decided to move everything to ZFS format because I hear it's more stable.

I am not striping or using any sort of RAID. Each disk has one volume and that's it. I had previously put each of the 5 drives in as UFS as you can see here. I added the 6th today with ZFS. Nothing special, I didn't create a pool, just a volume, which I now intend to copy data over to.

Then, one by one, as I empty out a UFS volume, I will unmount and re-add as ZFS.



So my question is...Am I doing this right?

I don't want any redundancy or backups, just separate volumes, separated by disk, one per disk, that don't affect one another if one were to crash or be removed.

 

[ProtoSD]

It sounds like you're doing it right, just make sure when you create a new volume that you don't make it part of an existing volume. I don't remember off the top of my head what the dialog is when you create a new volume, but there's something where you have a choice to add it to an existing volume which you don't want to do in your situation.

 

[Stephens]

And get a UPS.