On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:51 AM, James Carlson <carls...@workingcode.com> wrote: > Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote: >> This just can't be an accident, there must be some coincidence and thus >> there's a good chance >> that these CHKSUM errors must have a common source, either in ZFS or in NFS ? > > One possible cause would be a lack of substantial exercise. The man > page says: > > A regular file. The use of files as a backing store is > strongly discouraged. It is designed primarily for > experimental purposes, as the fault tolerance of a file > is only as good as the file system of which it is a > part. A file must be specified by a full path. > > Could it be that "discouraged" and "experimental" mean "not tested as > thoroughly as you might like, and certainly not a good idea in any sort > of production environment?" > > It sounds like a bug, sure, but the fix might be to remove the option.
This unsupported feature is supported with the use of Sun Ops Center 2.5 when a zone is put on a "NAS Storage Library". -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
