Hi I'll recommend going over the zfs presentation. One of the points they listed was that - even in case of silent errors (like you noticed) other systems just go on. Your data gets silently corrupted and you'd never notice it. If there are few bit flips in jpegs and movie files, it will almost never be noticeable. However, there are places where it will cause catastrophy but in day-to-day cases we don't come across or even if we do - we attribute them to $CAUSE, forget and go on. ZFS tries to fix this problem as one of its core goals. (that is why block checksums are there).
Rest assured, zfs + solaris has only uncovered and made it uncomfortably evident the problem that has been so far latent. Now the uncovering itself may cause you pains is a different issue. Ignorance is bliss for most of the humans :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
