On 9/15/06, can you guess? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Implementing it at the directory and file levels would be even more flexible:
redundancy strategy would no longer be tightly tied to path location, but
directories and files could themselves still inherit defaults from the
filesystem and p
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:23:31AM -0700, can you guess? wrote:
> Implementing it at the directory and file levels would be even more
> flexible: redundancy strategy would no longer be tightly tied to path
> location, but directories and files could themselves still inherit
> defaults from the fil
> On 9/13/06, Matthew Ahrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Sure, if you want *everything* in your pool to be
> mirrored, there is no
> > real need for this feature (you could argue that
> setting up the pool
> > would be easier if you didn't have to slice up the
> disk though).
>
> Not necessar
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
While I'm not a big fan of this feature, if the work is that well
understood and that small, I have no objection to it. (Boy that
sounds snotty; apologies, not what I intend here. Those of you
reading this know how muich you care about my opinion, that's up to
you.)
On 9/12/06, Celso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whether it's hard to understand is debatable, but
> this feature
> integrates very smoothly with the existing
> infrastructure and wouldn't
> cause any trouble when extending or porting ZFS.
>
OK, given this statement...
>
> Just for the record, t
Chad Lewis wrote:
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Celso wrote:
the proposed solution differs in one important aspect: it automatically
detects data corruption.
Detecting data corruption is a function of the ZFS checksumming feature. The
proposed solution has _nothing_ to do with detecting corru
>
> It seems to me that asking the user to solve this
> problem by manually
> making copies of all his files puts all the burden on
> the
> user/administrator and is a poor solution.
I completely agree
> For one, they have to remember to do it pretty often.
> For two, when
> hey do experie
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Celso wrote:
On 12/09/06, Celso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it has already been said that in many
peoples experience, when a disk fails, it completely
fails. Especially on laptops. Of course ditto blocks
wouldn't help you in this situation either!
Exactly
> On 12/09/06, Celso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I think it has already been said that in many
> peoples experience, when a disk fails, it completely
> fails. Especially on laptops. Of course ditto blocks
> wouldn't help you in this situation either!
>
> Exactly.
>
> > I still think that si
