On 23-Nov-08, at 12:21 PM, Scara Maccai wrote: > I watched both the youtube video > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN6iDzesEs0 > > and the one on http://www.opensolaris.com/, "ZFS – A Smashing Hit". > > In the first one is obvious that the app stops working when they > smash the drives; they have to physically detach the drive before > the array reconstruction begins. > I'm not the only one that noticed it, comments on youtube: > > "It appears that ZFS didn't recover after each drive failure until > he unplugged the failed drive? Or was it coincidence that he > unplugged the drive just as ZFS started recovering?" > Reply > "Yep. its a bug in solaris. BUt if you try and tell a sun person > that, they get really pissy." >
Why would it be assumed to be a bug in Solaris? Seems more likely on balance to be a problem in the error reporting path or a controller/ firmware weakness. I'm pretty sure the first 2 versions of this demo I saw were executed perfectly - and in a packed auditorium (Moscow? and Russians are the toughest crowd). No smoke, no mirrors. --T > In the second video the focus is on the drive when the guy smashes > it; I don't see any reasons why they would not let you see the app > while he smashed the drive. > The focus comes back to the running app right after he detached the > hard drive. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
