Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-13 Thread Gregory Shaw
On Sep 12, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Celso wrote:On 12/09/06, Celso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the great things about zfs, is that it protects not just against mechanical failure, butagainst silent data corruption. Having this availableto laptop owners seems to me to be important tomaking zfs even m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-12 Thread Dick Davies
On 12/09/06, Celso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...you split one disk in two. you then have effectively two partitions which you can then create a new mirrored zpool with. Then everything is mirrored. Correct? Everything in the filesystems in the pool, yes. With ditto blocks, you can selecti

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-12 Thread Celso
> On 12/09/06, Celso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the great things about zfs, is that it > protects not just against mechanical failure, but > against silent data corruption. Having this available > to laptop owners seems to me to be important to > making zfs even more attractive. > >

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-12 Thread Anton B. Rang
>And if we are still writing to the file systems at that time ? New writes should be done according to the new state (if encryption is being enabled, all new writes are encrypted), since the goal is that eventually the whole disk will be in the new state. The completion percentage should probab