Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Miles, > > Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 10:51:49 PM, you wrote: > > MN> It's not really enough for me, but what's more the case doesn't match > MN> what we were looking for: a device which ``never returns error codes, > MN> always returns silently bad data.'' I asked for this because you said > MN> ``However, not all devices return error codes which indicate > MN> unrecoverable reads,'' which I think is wrong. Rather, most devices > MN> sometimes don't, not some devices always don't. > > > > Please look for slides 23-27 at > http://unixdays.pl/i/unixdays-prezentacje/2007/milek.pdf > >
You really don't have to look very far to find this sort of thing. The scar just below my left knee is directly attributed to a bugid fixed in patch 106129-12. Warning: the following link may frighten experienced datacenter personnel, fortunately, the affected device is long since EOL. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-106129-12-1 -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
