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

2006-09-12 Thread Dick Davies
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. I'm not arguing

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

2006-09-12 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Anton B. Rang wrote: reformatted > >True - I'm a laptop user myself. But as I said, I'd assume the whole disk > >would fail (it does in my experience). Usually a laptop disk suffers a mechanical failure - and the failure rate is a lot higher than disks in a fixed lo

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

2006-09-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
Anton B. Rang wrote: The biggest problem I see with this is one of observability, if not all of the data is encrypted yet what should the encryption property say ? If it says encryption is on then the admin might think the data is "safe", but if it says it is off that isn't the truth either bec