Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Questions. (RAID-Z questions actually)

2006-07-03 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:13:33PM +0800, Steven Sim wrote: > Could someone elaborate more on the statement "metadata drives > reconstruction"... ZFS starts from the ubberblock and works its way down (think recursive tree traversal) the metadata to find all live blocks and rebuilds the replaced v

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Questions. (RAID-Z questions actually)

2006-07-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>I understand the copy-on-write thing. That was very well illustrated in >"ZFS The Last Word in File Systems" by Jeff Bonwick. > >But if every block is it's own RAID-Z stripe, if the block is lost, how >does ZFS recover the block??? You should perhaps not take "block" literally; the block is w

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Questions. (RAID-Z questions actually)

2006-07-03 Thread Steven Sim
Hello Gurus; I've been playing with ZFS and reading the materials, BLOGS and FAQs. It's an awesome FS and I just wish that Sun would evangelize a little bit more. But that's another story. I'm writing here to ask a few very simple questions. I am able to understand the RAID-5 write hole and