>If you don't give ZFS any redundancy, you risk loosing you pool if there is data corruption.

Is this the same risk for data corruption as  UFS on hardware based luns?

If we present one LUN to ZFS and choose not to ZFS mirror or do a raidz pool of that LUN is ZFS able to handle disk or raid controllers failures on the hardware array?

Does ZFS handle intermittent controller outages on the raid controllers the same as what UFS would?

Thanks,
Shawn

Ian Collins wrote:
Shawn Joy wrote:
Hi All,
Its been a while since I touched zfs. Is the below still the case with zfs and hardware raid array? Do we still need to provide two luns from the hardware raid then zfs mirror those two luns?

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#hardwareraid

Need, no.  Should, yes.

The last two points on that page are key:

"Overall, ZFS functions as designed with SAN-attached devices, but if you expose simpler devices to ZFS, you can better leverage all available features.

In summary, if you use ZFS with SAN-attached devices, you can take advantage of the self-healing features of ZFS by configuring redundancy in your ZFS storage pools even though redundancy is available at a lower hardware level."

If you don't give ZFS any redundancy, you risk loosing you pool if there is data corruption.

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