On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ross wrote: > My concern is that ZFS has all this information on disk, it has the > ability to know exactly what is and isn't corrupted, and it should > (at least for a system with snapshots) have many, many potential > uberblocks to try. It should be far, far better than UFS at > recovering from these things, but for a certain class of faults, > when it hits a problem it just stops dead.
While ZFS knows if a data block is retrieved correctly from disk, a correctly retrieved data block does not indicate that the pool isn't "corrupted". A block written in the wrong order is a form of corruption. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, 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
