On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Stephan Ferraro wrote: >> >> He had problems with ZFS. It turned out to be faulty >> RAM. ZFS is so sensitive it detects and reports >> problems to you. No other filesystem does that, so >> you think ZFS is problematic and switch. But the >> other filesystems is slowly corrupting your data, >> because they dont notice problems. >> >> In other words, I suspect the problem is not in ZFS, >> but somewhere else. Maybe hardware? Maybe BIOS? > > That could be possible because its very cheap hardware from the hosting > service Hetzner.
As far as I understand it have been working for you for some time. How long was that? Have you been doing something new and different with your system lately? > I will run a memtest to get more information about it. > If I detect errors on the ram and they will exchange it, how can I repair my > defective spacemap? Here the same trick with aok/zfs_recover may work, but in general the only supported way at the moment is to backup all data, destroy and recreate pool and then restore data back. Cheers Victor _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
