> wow, talk about a knee jerk reaction... Not at all. A long thread is started where the user lost his pool, and discussion shows it's a known problem. I love ZFS and I'm still very nervous about the risk of loosing an entire pool. > As has been described many times over the past few > years, there is a manual procedure.
Yes, but there are a few issues with this: 1. The OP doesn't seem to have been able to get anybody to help him recover his pool. The natural assumption reading a thread like this is that ZFS pool corruption happens, and you loose your data. 2. While the procedure may have been mentioned, I've never seen a link to official documentation on it. 3. My understanding from reading Victors threads (although I may be wrong) is that this recovery takes a significant amount of time. > You probably won't lose all of your data. Statistically speaking, there > are very few people who have seen this. There are many more cases > where ZFS detected and repaired corruption. Yes, but statistics don't matter when emotions come into play, and I'm afraid with something like this it's going to scare off a lot of people who read about it. It might be rare, but people don't think like that. Why do you think so many play the lottery ;-) The other point is that system admins like to have control over their own data. It's their job on the line if things go wrong, and if they see a major problem like this without an obvious solution and which they would have very little control over if it happens, they're going to get very nervous about implementing it. >From a psychological point of view, this issue is very damaging to zfs. On the flip side, once the recovery tool is available, this will turn into a good positive for zfs. I don't believe I've heard of any other bug that causes complete loss of the pool, so with a recovery tool, zfs should have an enviable ability to safeguard data. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
