I agree completely with your assessment of the problems Gary, when ZFS can't correct your data you do seem to be at high risk of loosing data, although some people are able to recover it with the help of a couple of helpful souls on this forum.
I can think of one scenario where you might be able to turn this configuration to your advantage though. If you have two SAN's for redundancy, it would be possible to link each to your ZFS server and create a ZFS mirror. That then gives you the best of both worlds (while potentially avoiding SAN remote mirroring licences which tend to be expensive). You could also potentially mirror to a local disk, although I suspect that will have a noticeable impact on performance in most situations. Failing that, as others have suggested, export multiple LUN's from your SAN and create a ZFS raid array or mirror. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
