On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:16:13PM -0500, Al Hopper wrote:
> > Case in point, there was a gentleman who posted on the Yahoo Groups solx86
> > list and described how faulty firmware on a Hitach HDS system damaged a
> > bunch of data.  The HDS system moves disk blocks around, between one disk
> > and another, in the background, to optimized the filesystem layout.  Long
> > after he had written data, blocks from one data set were intermingled with
> > blocks for other data sets/files causing extensive data corruption.
>
> Al,
>
> the problem you described comes probably from failures in code of firmware
> not the failure of disk surface.  Sun's engineers can also do some mistakes
> in ZFS code, right ?

Yes!

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