> > Side note: Is this right? "ditto" blocks are extra parity blocks > > stored on the same disk (won't prevent total disk failures, but could > > provide data recovery if enough parity is available) > > Yes. See Richard Ellings' excellent blog titled "ZFS, copies, and data > protection", where one picture is truely worth 1,000 words.
I wouldn't refer to them as "extra parity blocks". They're separate copies of the data. The pool that contains the filesystem may or may not be using parity. -- 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
