I did say depends on the guarantees, right? :-) My point is that all hw raid systems are not created equally.

Nathan Kroenert wrote:
Which has little benefit if it's the HBA or the Array internals change the meaning of the message...

That's the whole point of ZFS's checksumming - It's end to end...

Nathan.

Torrey McMahon wrote:
Toby Thain wrote:

On 22-May-07, at 11:01 AM, Louwtjie Burger wrote:

On 5/22/07, Pål Baltzersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What if your HW-RAID-controller dies? in say 2 years or more..
What will read your disks as a configured RAID? Do you know how to (re)configure the >controller or restore the config without destroying your data? Do you know for sure that a >spare-part and firmware will be identical, or at least compatible? How good is your service >subscription? Maybe only scrapyards and museums will have what you had. =o

Be careful when talking about RAID controllers in general. They are
not created equal! ...
Hardware raid controllers have done the job for many years ...

Not quite the same job as ZFS, which offers integrity guarantees that RAID subsystems cannot.

Depend on the guarantees. Some RAID systems have built in block checksumming.

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