On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sri...@belenix.org> wrote: > >From the presentation "ZFS - The last word in filesystems", Page 22 > "In a multi-disk pool, ZFS survives any non-consecutive disk failures" > > Questions: > If I have a 3 disk RAIDZ with disks A, B and C, then: > - if disk b fails, then will I be able to continue to read data if > disks A and C are still available ? > If I have a 4 disk RAIDZ with disks A, B, C, and D, then: > - if disks a and b fail, then I won't be able to read from the mirror > any more. Is this understanding correct ? > - if disks a and c fail, then I will be be able to read from disks b > and d. Is this understanding correct ?
No. That quote is part of the discussion of ditto blocks. See the following: http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/ditto_blocks_the_amazing_tape -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
