i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad blocks, but it didn't work.
so as i don't know where the bad blocks are but i'd still like to use some of the rest of the disk, i thought ZFS might be able to help. i partitioned the disk so slices 4,5,6 and 7 are each 5GB. i thought i'd make one or multiple zpools on those slices and then i'd be able to narrow down where the bad sections are. so my question is can i declare a zpool that spans multiple c0d0sXX but isn't a mirror and if i can, then will zfs be able to detect where the problem c0d0sXX is and not use it? if not, i'll have to make 4 different zpools and experiment with storing stuff on each to find the approximate location of the bad blocks. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
