+1. What the previous poster is missing is this: it's entirely possible for sectors on a disk to go bad and if you haven't read them in awhile, you might not notice. Then, say, the other disk (in a mirror for example) dies entirely. You are dismayed to realize your redundant disk configuration has lost data for you anyway.
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 4:42 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability yes, you shoud do a scrub and no, there isn't very much risk to this. This will scan your disks for bits that have gone stale or the like. You should do it. We do a scrub once per week. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Roel_D <openindi...@out-side.nl> wrote: > Being on the list and reading all ZFS problem and question posts makes > me a little scared. > > I have 4 Sun X4140 servers running in the field for 4 years now and > they all have ZFS mirrors (2x HD). They are running Solaris 10 and 1 > is running solaris 11. I also have some other servers running OI, also with ZFS. > > The Solaris servers N E V E R had any ZFS scrub. I didn't even knew > such existed ;-) > > Since it all worked flawless for years now i am a huge Solaris/OI fan. > > But how stable are things nowaday? Does one need to do a scrub? Or a > resilver? > > How come i see so much ZFS trouble? > > > > Kind regards, > > The out-side > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
