On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Maurice Volaski wrote: > 4 drive failures over 5 years. Of course, YMMV, especially if you > drive drunk :-)
Note that there is a difference between drive failure and media data loss. In a system which has been running fine for a while, the chance of a second drive failing during rebuild may be low, but the chance of block-level media failure is not. However, computers do not normally run in a vaccum. Many failures are caused by something like a power glitch, temperature cycle, or the flap of a butterfly's wings. Unless your environment is completely stable and the devices are not dependent on some of the same things (e.g. power supplies, chassis, SATA controller, air conditioning) then what caused one device to fail may very well cause another device to fail. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
