Hi, > I have 3 drives. > The first one will be the primary/boot drive under UFS. The 2 others will > become a mirrored pool with ZFS. > Now, I have problem with the boot drive (hardware or software), so all the > data on my mirrored pool are ok? > How can I restore this pool? When I create the pool, do I need to save the > properties?
All metadata for the pool is stored inside the pool. If the boot disk fails in any way, all pool data is safe. Worst case might be that you have to reinstall everything on the boot disk. After that, you just say "zfs import" to get your pool back and everything will be ok. > What happend when a drive crash when ZFS write some data on a raidz pool? If the crash occurs in the middle of a write operation, then the new data blocks will not be valid. ZFS will then revert back to the state before writing the new set of blocks. Therefore you'll have 100% data integrity but of course the new blocks that were written to the pool will be lost. > Do the pool go to the degraded state or faulted state? No, the pool will come up as online. The degraded state is only for devices that aren't accessible any more and the faulted state is for pools that do not have enough valid devices to be complete. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutions http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
