Shouldn't there be a big warning when configuring a pool
with no redundancy and/or should that not require a -f flag ?

-r

Al Hopper writes:
 > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Ricardo Correia wrote:
 > 
 > > On Friday 15 December 2006 20:02, Dave Burleson wrote:
 > > > Does anyone have a document that describes ZFS in a pure
 > > > SAN environment?  What will and will not work?
 > > >
 > > >  From some of the information I have been gathering
 > > > it doesn't appear that ZFS was intended to operate
 > > > in a SAN environment.
 > >
 > > This might answer your question:
 > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#hardwareraid
 > 
 > The section entitled "Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?" does not
 > make it clear the (some would say) dire effects of not having pool
 > redundancy.  I think that FAQ should clearly spell out the downside; i.e.,
 > where ZFS will "say" (Sorry Charlie) "pool is corrupt".
 > 
 > A FAQ should always emphasize the real-world downsides to poor decisions
 > made by the reader.   Not delivering "bad news" does the reader a
 > dis-service IMHO.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
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