> We haven't had any "real life" drive failures at work, but at home I > took some old flaky IDE drives and put them in a pentium 3 box running > Nevada.
Similar story here. Some IDE and SATA drive burps under Linux (and please don't tell me how wonderful Reiser4 is - 'cause it's banned in this house forever.... arrrrgh) and Windows. It ate my entire iTunes library. Yeah, lurve that silent data corruption feature. > Several of them were known to cause errors under Linux, so I > mirrored them in approximately-the-same-size pairs and set up weekly > scrubs. Two drives out of six failed entirely, and were nicely > retired, before I gave up on the idea and bought new disks. Pretty cool, eh ? > Finally, at work we're switching everything over to ZFS because it's > so convenient... but we keep tape backups nonetheless. A very good idea. Disasters will still occur. With enough storage, snapshots can eliminate the routine file by file restores but a complete meltdown is always a possibility. So backups aren't optional, but I find myself doing very few restores any more. Bob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
