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--- quickreference:zfs [2024/02/03 23:04] – rodolico
+++ quickreference:zfs [2025/01/06 23:05] (current) – [Create a zpool] rodolico
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 zpool create -f storage raidz2 /dev/da[01234567]
 </code>
+You can add extra functionality by creating //intent//, //dedup// and //cache// vdev's at the same time. Following example shows adding a vdev (mirror) to a pool.
+<code bash>
+zpool create -f -m /storage storage raidz2 da4 da5 da6 da7 da8 da9 dedup mirror da2 da3
+</code>
+This will create a pool named storage, mounted (-m) at /storage, forced to ignore most drive errors. The pool will be a raidz2 (aka RAID 6) with 6 drives (4-9), and have a dedup vdev consisting of a mirror from da2 and 3.
 ===== Create a Dataset =====