On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:06:54AM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote:
On 5/30/07 12:29 AM, "Peter Childs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good point, also if you had Raid 1 with 3 drives with some bit errors at least
you can take a vote on whats right. Where as if you only have 2 and they
disagree how do you know which is right other than pick one and hope... But
whatever it will be slower to keep in sync on a heavy write system.
Much better to get a RAID system that checksums blocks so that "good" is
known. Solaris ZFS does that, as do high end systems from EMC and HDS.
I don't see how that's better at all; in fact, it reduces to exactly the
same problem: given two pieces of data which disagree, which is right?
The ZFS hashes do a better job of error detection, but that's still not
the same thing as a voting system (3 copies, 2 of 3 is correct answer)
to resolve inconsistencies.
Mike Stone
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