Hello Richard,
Monday, February 2, 2009, 5:39:34 PM, you wrote:
RE> Orvar Korvar wrote:
>> Ok. Just to confirm: A modern disk has already some spare capacity which is
>> not normally utilized by ZFS, UFS, etc. If the spare capacity is finished,
>> then the disc should be replaced.
>>
RE> Also, if ZFS decides that a block is bad, it can leave it unused.
RE> For example, if you have a mirrored pool, it is not required that
RE> block N on vdev1 == block N on vdev2. In a sense, this works
RE> like block sparing.
Would ZFS mark such a block permanently as bad? Under what
circumstances?
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Best regards,
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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