On 01/25/12 09:08, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Assuming the failure rate of drives is not linear, but skewed toward higher failure rate after some period of time (say, 3 yrs) ...
See section 3.1 of the Google study: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf although section 4.2 of the Carnegie Mellon study is much more supportive of the assumption. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder.pdf _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss