Hello przemolicc,

Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 10:57:17 AM, you wrote:

ppf> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:16:13PM -0500, Al Hopper wrote:
>> Case in point, there was a gentleman who posted on the Yahoo Groups solx86
>> list and described how faulty firmware on a Hitach HDS system damaged a
>> bunch of data.  The HDS system moves disk blocks around, between one disk
>> and another, in the background, to optimized the filesystem layout.  Long
>> after he had written data, blocks from one data set were intermingled with
>> blocks for other data sets/files causing extensive data corruption.

ppf> Al,

ppf> the problem you described comes probably from failures in code of firmware
ppf> not the failure of disk surface.  Sun's engineers can also do some mistakes
ppf> in ZFS code, right ?

But the point is that ZFS should detect also such errors and take
proper actions. Other filesystems can't.

And of course there are bugs in ZFS :P

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