On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:43:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >I cannot let you say that.
> >Here in my company we are very interested in ZFS, but we do not care
> >about the RAID/mirror features, because we already have a SAN with
> >RAID-5 disks, and dual fabric connection to the hosts.
> 
> But you understand that these underlying RAID mechanism give absolutely
> no guarantee about data integrity but only that some data was found were
> some (possibly other) data was written?  (RAID5 never verifies the
> checkum is correct on reads; it only uses it to reconstruct data when
> reads fail)

But you understand that he perhaps knows that but so far nothing wrong
happened [*] and migration is still very important feature for him ?

[*] almost every big company has its data center with SAN and FC
    connections with RAID-5 or RAID-10 in their storage arrays
    and they are treated as reliable

przemol

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Wpadka w kosciele - zobacz >> http://link.interia.pl/f19ea

_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to