On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:35:15AM -0800, J wrote: > To be more descriptive, I plan to have a Raid 1 array for the OS, and > then I will need 3 additional Raid5/RaidZ/etc arrays for data > archiving, backups and other purposes. There is plenty of > documentation on how to recover an array if one of the drives in the > array fails, but what if the OS crashes? Since ZFS is a > software-based RAID, if the OS crashes is it even possible to recover > any of the arrays?
Sure, because the ZFS configuration is stored within the pool, not in the OS. Just install a new OS, attach the disks, and do a 'zfs import' to find the importable pools. -- Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
