Richard Elling wrote: > > One of the benefits of ZFS is that not only is head synchronization not > needed, but also block offsets do not have to be the same. For example, > in a traditional mirror, block 1 on device 1 is paired with block 1 on > device 2. In ZFS, this 1:1 mapping is not required. I believe this will > result in ZFS being more resilient to disks with multiple block failures. > In order for a traditional RAID to implement this, it would basically > need to [re]invent a file system.
This may well offer better protection against drive firmware bugs. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
