> >>From what I read, one of the main things about ZFS is "Don't trust the > >> underlying hardware". If this is the case, could I run Solaris under > >> VirtualBox or under some other emulated environment and still get the > >> benefits of ZFS such as end to end data integrity? > > You could probably answer that question by changing the phrase to "Don't > trust the underlying virtual hardware"! ZFS doesn't care if the storage is > virtualised or not.
But worth noting is that, as with for example hardware RAID, if you intend to take advantage of the self-healing properties of ZFS with multiple disks, you must expose the individual disks to your mirror/raidz/raidz2 individually through the virtualization environment and use them in your pool. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org
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