Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Dec 20, 2006, at 00:37, Anton B. Rang wrote: INFORMATION: If a member of this striped zpool becomes unavailable or develops corruption, Solaris will kernel panic and reboot to protect your data. OK, I'm puzzled. Am I the only one on this list who believes that a kernel panic,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Elling
Dennis Clarke wrote: Anton B. Rang wrote: INFORMATION: If a member of this striped zpool becomes unavailable or develops corruption, Solaris will kernel panic and reboot to protect your data. Is this the official, long-term stance? I don't think it is. I think this is an interpretation of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-20 Thread Dennis Clarke
no no .. its a feature. :-P If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then its a duck. a kernel panic that brings down a system is a bug. Plain and simple. I disagree (nit). A hardware fault can also cause a panic. Faults != bugs. ha ha .. yeah. If the sysadm walks over

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-19 Thread Anton B. Rang
INFORMATION: If a member of this striped zpool becomes unavailable or develops corruption, Solaris will kernel panic and reboot to protect your data. OK, I'm puzzled. Am I the only one on this list who believes that a kernel panic, instead of EIO, represents a bug? This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-19 Thread Torrey McMahon
Anton B. Rang wrote: INFORMATION: If a member of this striped zpool becomes unavailable or develops corruption, Solaris will kernel panic and reboot to protect your data. OK, I'm puzzled. Am I the only one on this list who believes that a kernel panic, instead of EIO, represents a bug?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re[2]: ZFS in a SAN environment

2006-12-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
Anton B. Rang wrote: INFORMATION: If a member of this striped zpool becomes unavailable or develops corruption, Solaris will kernel panic and reboot to protect your data. OK, I'm puzzled. Am I the only one on this list who believes that a kernel panic, instead of EIO, represents a bug?