> > Also, even if it could read the data from a subset of the disks, isn't > > it a feature that every read is also verifying the parity for > > correctness/silent corruption? > > It doesn't -- we only read the data, not the parity. (See line 708 of > vdev_raidz.c.) The parity is checked only when scrubbing.
Ah, that's a major misconception on my part then. I'd thought I'd read that unlike any other RAID implementation, ZFS checked and verified parity on normal data access. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
