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title: 'Tutorial: Setup a ZFS storage pool'
description: ZFS is a handy way of pooling disks together into a single filesystem.
  Whether you want to transparently mirror content across disks to preserve yourself
  from faulty hardware or unify an array of disks into a single storage unit, it’s
  a good fit for both personal devices and enterprise stacks. In this short tutorial,
  you  […]
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[David Callé](https://canonical.com/blog/author/davidc3-2 "More about David Callé")

9 February 2018

# Tutorial: Setup a ZFS storage pool

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ZFS is a [handy way](https://ubuntu.com/blog/zfs-is-the-fs-for-containers-in-ubuntu-16-04) of pooling disks together into a single filesystem.

Whether you want to transparently mirror content across disks to preserve yourself from faulty hardware or unify an array of disks into a single storage unit, it’s a good fit for both personal devices and enterprise stacks.

In this short tutorial, you will learn how to create and use a ZFS storage pool on Ubuntu 16.04 or above.

**What you’ll learn**

* How to install ZFS
* How to create a striped or mirrored storage pool

[Take The Tutorial](https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/setup-zfs-storage-pool)

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