Already making use of it, thank you!

http://www.justinconover.com/blog/?p=17
I took 6x250gb disk and tried raidz2/raidz/none

# zpool create zfs raidz2 c0d0 c1d0 c2d0 c3d0 c7d0 c8d0

df -h zfs
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
zfs                    915G    49K   915G     1%    /zfs

# zpool destroy -f zfs
Plain old raidz (raid-5ish)

# zpool create zfs raidz c0d0 c1d0 c2d0 c3d0 c7d0 c8d0

# df -h zfs
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
zfs                    1.1T    41K   1.1T     1%    /zfs

# zpool destroy -f zfs

Or no raidz

# zpool create zfs c0d0 c1d0 c2d0 c3d0 c7d0 c8d0
# df -h zfs
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
zfs                    1.3T     1K   1.3T     1%    /zfs 

So even though I'm loosing about 400gb of space, this is a backup server for my 
wife, a professional photographer, so loosing or photos might be worst than 
loosing space ;)
 
 
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