>I'm a little confused by the first poster's message as well, but you lose some benefits of ZFS if you don't create >your pools with either RAID1 or RAIDZ, such as data corruption detection. The array isn't going to detect that >because all it knows about are blocks.
That's the dilemma, the array provides nice features like RAID1 and RAID5, but those are of no real use when using ZFS. The advantages to use ZFS on such array are e.g. the sometimes huge write cache available, use of consolidated storage and in SAN configurations, cloning and sharing storage between hosts. The price comes of course in additional administrative overhead (lots of microcode updates, more components that can fail in between, etc). Also, in bigger companies there usually is a team of storage specialist, that mostly do not know about the applications running on top of it, or do not care... (like: "here you have your bunch of gigabytes...") //Mika # mv Disclaimer.txt /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended receiver, any disclosure, copying to any person or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on this e-mail, is prohibited and may be un- lawful. You must therefore delete this e-mail. Internet communications may not be secure or error-free and may contain viruses. They may be subject to possible data corruption, accidental or on purpose. This e-mail is not and should not be construed as an offer or the solicitation of an offer to purchase or subscribe or sell or redeem any investments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
