Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Uber block corruption?

2006-12-13 Thread Richard Elling
Anton B. Rang wrote: Also note that the UB is written to every vdev (4 per disk) so the chances of all UBs being corrupted is rather low. The chances that they're corrupted by the storage system, yes. However, they are all sourced from the same in-memory buffer, so an undetected in-memory err

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Uber block corruption?

2006-12-13 Thread Darren Dunham
> > Also note that the UB is written to every vdev (4 per disk) so the > > chances of all UBs being corrupted is rather low. > > The chances that they're corrupted by the storage system, yes. > > However, they are all sourced from the same in-memory buffer, so an > undetected in-memory error (e.

[zfs-discuss] Re: Uber block corruption?

2006-12-12 Thread Anton B. Rang
> Also note that the UB is written to every vdev (4 per disk) so the > chances of all UBs being corrupted is rather low. The chances that they're corrupted by the storage system, yes. However, they are all sourced from the same in-memory buffer, so an undetected in-memory error (e.g. kernel bug

[zfs-discuss] Re: Uber block corruption?

2006-12-12 Thread Anton B. Rang
> [...] there is no possibility of referencing an overwritten > block unless you have to back off more than two uberblocks. At this > point, blocks that have been overwritten will show up as corrupted (bad > checksums). Hmmm. Is there some way we can warn the user to scrub their pool because we