On Wed 22/07/09 08:21 , "Richard Elling" richard.ell...@gmail.com sent:
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

>> With wear leveling and zfs you would probably discover that the 
>> drive suddenly starts to wear out all at once once it reaches the  
>> end of its lifetime.  Unless drive ages are carefully staggered, or 
>> different types of drives are intentionally used, it might be that 
>> data redundancy does not help.  Poof!
> 
> Eh?  Would you care to share how you calculate this?

The better the wear leveling, the higher the chances of multiple cells failing 
at one time?

--
Ian.

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