On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:58:37PM -0500, JZ wrote: >> Under what situations would you expect any differences between the ZFS >> checksums and the Netapp checksums to appear? >> >> I have no evidence, but I suspect the only difference (modulo any bugs) >> is how the software handles checksum failures.
> As I said, some NetApp folks I won't attack. > http://andyleonard.com/2008/03/05/on-parity-lost/ > > And some I don't really care. RAID-DP was cool (but CPQ ProLiant RAID ADG > was there for a long time too...). > http://partners.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/sample/0206tot_resiliency.html > > And then some I have no idea who said what... > http://www.feedage.com/feeds/1625300/comments-on-unanswered-questions-about-netapp > Those documents discuss the Netapp checksum methods, but I don't get from them under what situations you would expect the ZFS and Netapp techniques would provide different levels of validation (or what conditions would cause one to fail but not the other). -- Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
