Tuomas Leikola wrote: >> Actually, ZFS is already supposed to try to write the ditto copies of a >> block on different vdevs if multiple are available. > > *TRY* being the keyword here. > > What I'm looking for is a disk full error if ditto cannot be written > to different disks. This would guarantee that a mirror is written on a > separate disk - and the entire filesystem can be salvaged from a full > disk failure.
We call that a "mirror" :-) > Think about having the classic case of 50M, 100M and 200M disks. only > 150M can be really mirrored and the remaining 50M can only be used > non-redundantly. Assuming full disk failure mode, yes. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
