On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Miles Nordin wrote: > > In some sense the disk drivers and ZFS have different goals. The goal > of drivers should be to keep marginal disk/cabling/... subsystems > online as aggressively as possible, while the goal of ZFS should be to > notice and work around slightly-failing devices as soon as possible.
My buffer did overflow from this email, but I still noticed the stated goal of ZFS, which might differ from the objectives the ZFS authors have been working toward these past seven years. Could you please define "slightly-failing device" as well as how ZFS can know when the device is slightly-failing so it can start to work around it? Thanks, Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
