On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
This all-or-nothing behavior of ZFS pools is kinda scary. Turns out I'd rather have 99% of my data than 0% -- who knew? :-) I'd much rather have 100.00% than either of course, and I'm running ZFS with mirroring, and doing regular backups, because of that.
It seems to me that this level of terror is getting out of hand. I am glad to see that you made it to work today since statistics show that you might have gotten into a deadly automobile accident on the way to the office and would no longer care about your data. In fact, quite a lot of people get in serious automobile accidents yet we rarely hear such levels of terror regarding taking a drive in an automobile.
Most people are far more afraid of taking a plane flight than taking a drive in their car, even though taking a drive in their car is far more risky.
It is best to put risks in perspective. People are notoriously poor at evaluating risks and paranoia is often the result.
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