On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote: > Wait, are you saying that the handling of errors in RAIDZ and mirrors is > completely different? That it dumps the mirror disk immediately, but > keeps trying to get what it can from the RAIDZ disk? Because otherwise, > you assertion doesn't seem to hold up.
I think he meant that if one drive in a mirror dies completely, then any single read error on the remaining drive is not recoverable. With raidz2 (or a 3-way mirror for that matter), if one drive dies completely, you still have redundancy. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
