> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of VO > > The server hardware is pretty ghetto with whitebox components such as > non-ECC RAM (cause of the pool loss). I know the hardware sucks but > sometimes non-technical people don't understand the value of data before > it is lost.. I was lucky the system had not been sent out yet and the project > was "simply" delayed. > > In light of this experience, I would say raidz is not useful in certain hardware > failure scenarios. Bad bit in the RAM at the wrong time and the whole pool is > lost. > > Does the list have any ideas on how to make this kind of ghetto system more > resilient (short of buy ECC RAM and mobo for it)?
Backups. Even if you upgrade your hardware to better stuff... with ECC and so on ... There is no substitute for backups. Period. If you care about your data, you will do backups. Period. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
