Re: [zfs-discuss] terabyte or terror-byte disk drives

2009-02-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
> I've always felt squeamish when I had to move boxes with spinning > disks, > or when I had to watch someone else do it. Thanks for justifying my > paranoia... and good luck with the replacement drives. This reminds me of a story. Many years ago a friend of mine had to move some servers from

Re: [zfs-discuss] terabyte or terror-byte disk drives

2009-02-08 Thread Vincent Fox
You were just lucky before and unlucky now. I had a PC back in like Pentium-133 days go CRASH because I moved it too roughly while the drive was spinning. I moved many PC in my life with drive spinning no problems, but I don't COUNT on it and avoid it if humanly possible. Don't people do it a

Re: [zfs-discuss] terabyte or terror-byte disk drives

2009-02-08 Thread David Magda
On Feb 8, 2009, at 09:30, Volker A. Brandt wrote: >> yes, you've guessed it, the drive errors originated when the box was >> moved. A zpool scrub generated thousands of errors on the damaged >> drive. Now it's offline. Al is sad. :( > > [...] > >> Just a heads up - it might just help someone e

Re: [zfs-discuss] terabyte or terror-byte disk drives

2009-02-08 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> yes, you've guessed it, the drive errors originated when the box was > moved. A zpool scrub generated thousands of errors on the damaged > drive. Now it's offline. Al is sad. :( [...] > Just a heads up - it might just help someone else on the list who has > developed bad habits over the year

Re: [zfs-discuss] terabyte or terror-byte disk drives

2009-02-08 Thread Orvar Korvar
Thank you. I will spread the word. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss