It turns out that even rather poor prediction accuracy is good enough to make a big difference (10x) in the failure probability of a RAID system.
See Gordon Hughes & Joseph Murray, "Reliability and Security of RAID Storage Systems and D2D Archives Using SATA Disk Drives", ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 2004, Pages 95–107. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
