You can get a sort of redundancy by creating multiple filesystems with 'copies' enabled on the ones that need some sort of self-healing in case of bad blocks.
Is it possible to at least present your disks as several LUNs? If you must have an abstraction layer between ZFS and the block device, presenting ZFS with a plurality of abstracted devices would let you get some sort of parity...or is this device live and in production? I do think that, though ZFS doesn't need fsck in the traditional sense, some sort of recovery tool would make storage admins even happier about using ZFS. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Tom Bird <t...@marmot.org.uk> wrote: > Toby Thain wrote: >> On 18-Jan-09, at 6:12 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: >> >>> Hey, Tom - >>> >>> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS any >>> sort of redundancy to manage. > > Every other file system out there runs fine on a single LUN, when things > go wrong you have a fsck utility that patches it up and the world keeps > on turning. > > I can't find anywhere that will sell me a 48 drive SATA JBOD with all > the drives presented on a single SAS channel, so running on a single > giant LUN is a real world scenario that ZFS should be able to cope with, > as this is how the hardware I am stuck with is arranged. > >> Which is particularly catastrophic when one's 'content' is organized as >> a monolithic file, as it is here - unless, of course, you have some way >> of scavenging that file based on internal structure. > > No, it's not a monolithic file, the point I was making there is that no > files are showing up. > >>>> r...@cs4:~# find /content >>>> /content >>>> r...@cs4:~# (yes that really is it) > > thanks > -- > Tom > > // www.portfast.co.uk -- internet services and consultancy > // hosting from 1.65 per domain > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
