Glaser, David wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a Thumper (ok, actually 3) with each having one large pool, > multiple filesystems and many snapshots. They are holding rsync copies > of multiple clients, being synced every night (using snapshots to keep > ‘incremental’ backups). > > I’m wondering how often (if ever) I should do scrubs of the pools, or > if the internal zfs integrity is enough that I don’t need to do manual > scrubs of the pool? I read through a number of tutorials online as > well as the zfs wiki entry, but I didn’t see anything very pertinent. > Scrubs are I/O intensive, but is the Pool able to be used normally > during a scrub? I think the answer is yes, but some confirmation helps > me sleep at night. >
We did a study on re-write scrubs which showed that once per year was a good interval for modern, enterprise-class disks. However, ZFS does a read-only scrub, so you might want to scrub more often. > Thoughts? Ideas? Knife-fights? > Knife fights? Naw, more like "paranoia will destroy ya" :-) Maybe we need a ZFS theme song :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3OVaCDLc9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBbAZVw3_7A -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
