It would be extremely helpful to know what brands/models of disks lie and which don't. This information could be provided diplomatically simply as threads documenting problems you are working on, stating the facts. Use of a specific string of words would make searching for it easy. There should be no liability, since you are simply documenting compatibility with zfs.
Or perhaps if the lawyers let you, you could simply publish a compatibility/incompatibility list. These ARE facts. If there is a way to make a detection tool, that would be very useful too, although after the purchase is made, it could be hard to send it back. However that info could be fed into the database as that drive/model being incompatible with zfs. As Solaris / zfs gains ground, this could become a strong driver in the industry. Re: I'll run tests with known-broken disks to determine how far back we need to go in practice -- I'll bet one txg is almost always enough. So go back three - we are using zfs because we want absolute reliability (or at least as close as we can get). --Ray -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
