... I > was running the card in RAID0 and getting random > corrupted bytes on > reads that went away when I switched to JBOD.
Then it kind of sounds like a card problem rather than a cable problem. Perhaps there's a very basic definition issue here: when I use the term 'consumer', I'm referring to the people who buy a computer and never open up the case, not to people who fool around with RAID cards. I'm referring to people who would likely say "What?" if you referred to Linux. I'm referring to people who would be extremely unlikely to be found participating in this forum. In other words, to the overwhelming majority of PC users, who don't want to hear anything that suggests that they might have to become more intimately involved with their computer in order to make it better (let alone 'better' in the relatively marginal and fairly abstruse ways that ZFS would). I'd include most Mac users as well, except that they've just suffered a major disruption to their world-view by being told that moving to the previously-despised Intel platform constitutes an *upgrade* - so if you can give them any excuse to think that ZFS is superior (and not available on Windows) they'll likely grab for it like desperate voyagers on the Titanic grabbed for life savers (hey, Steve's no dummy). People like you and me with somewhat more knowledge about computers are like airline employees who tend to choose their seats with an eye toward crash survivability: no, this probably won't mean they'll survive a crash, but it makes them feel better to be doing the little that they can. And they just accept the fact that the rest of the world would prefer not to think that they had to worry about crashes at all (if they thought otherwise, a lot more planes would be built with their seats facing backward). - bill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
