Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> The "problem" here is that by putting the data away from your machine, >> you loose the chance to "scrub" >> it on a regular basis, i.e. there is always the risk of silent >> corruption. >> > > Running a scrub is pointless since the media is not writeable. :-) > > But that's the point. You can't correct silent errors on write once media because you can't write the repair.
I think it makes more sense to save a checksum of the entire CD/DVD/etc. media separately, so you can check the validity of your data that way, instead of using ZFS on WORM media. Jon _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
