I'm not sure what benefit you forsee by running a COW filesystem (ZFS) on a COW array (NetApp).
Back to regularly scheduled programming: I still say you should let ZFS manage JBoD type storage. I can personally recount the horror of relying upon an intelligent storage array (EMC DMX3500 in our case.) We had in flight data corruption that EMC faithfully wrote just like NetApp would in your case. Everybody is assuming that corruption or data loss occurs only on disks, it can happen everywhere. In a datacenter SAN you've so many more paths that can introduce data corruption. Hence the need for ensuring data integrity closest to the use of data, namely ZFS. ZFS will not stop alpha particle induced memory corruption after data has been received by server and verified to be correct. Sadly I've been hit with that as well. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
