Timothy Renner wrote: > http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-1197.html > > Is a fairly good writeup on this subject... The short and sweet: One > disk in a non-mirrored pool dies and is replaced with a new disk... >
Actually, the demo shows how you can corrupt a portion of the data and ZFS tries to recover. This is a very different failure mode than a disk completely dying. > It looks like zpool scrub is able to recover from an error of this > magnitude, but getting it to import in the first place requires a bit of > hackery and some saved information... I'm curious if there are future > plans to allow forced importing of a damaged set of disks such as this > so that they can be scrubbed and recovered. Also if ZFS will allow a > forced import *without* a replacement... And will that be part of disk > removal per future release (In the FAQ): > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#deviceremoval > > There are RFEs open for improving the ability to do forensic recovery, but I don't know anything about the schedule. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
