> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Phil Pennock > > My takeaway was that I should be looking at ZFS sooner rather than later > and relying upon enterprise class disks + RAID without checksums in the > FS layer is becoming increasingly foolhardy.
Very very bigtime important feature, filesystem checksumming. If you don't think it's important, it's because you're not using it, and that means it happens without your knowledge. I've only seen two checksum mismatches in the last 3 years on production servers, but without checksumming, it would have passed undetected, and in the worst case it could be copied/replicated into other things. (Of course, in ZFS, it simply retried or re-read the data from the other side of the mirror, silently corrected it, and my monitoring system alerted me that the checksum mismatch counter had increased.) But ZFS is not the only thing that does filesystem checksumming... BTRFS comes to mind. Not sure what else. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
