Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading
Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it
better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it
has only one drive. If ZFS detects something bad it might kernel
On 08/30/2012 04:08 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading
Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it
better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it
has only one drive. If
would be very annoying if ZFS barfed on a technicality and I had to reinstall
the whole OS because of a kernel panic and an unbootable system.
Is this a known scenario with ZFS then? I can't recall hearing of this
happening.
I've seen plenty of UFS filesystems dieing with panic: freeing
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Nomen Nescio nob...@dizum.com wrote:
In this specific use case I would rather have a system that's still bootable
and runs as best it can
That's what would happen if the corruption happens on part of the disk
(e.g. bad sector).
than an unbootable system that
