On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Fredrich Maney <fredrichma...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Ah... an illiterate AND idiotic bigot. Have you even read the manual > or *ANY* of the replies to your posts? *YOU* caused the situation that > resulted in your data being corrupted. Not Sun, not OpenSolaris, not > ZFS and not anyone on this list. Yet you feel the need to blame ZFS > and insult the people that have been trying to help you understand > what happened and why you shouldn't do what you did. > #1 English is clearly not his native tongue. Calling someone idiotic and illiterate when they're doing as well as he is in a second language is not only inaccurate, it's "idiotic". > > ZFS is not a filesystem like UFS or Reiserfs, nor is it an LVM like > SVM or VxVM. It is both a filesystem and a logical volume manager. As > such, like all LVM solutions, there are two steps that you must > perform to safely remove a disk: unmount the filesystem and quiesce > the volume. That means you *MUST*, in the case of ZFS, issue 'umount > filesystem' *AND* 'zpool export' before you yank the USB stick out of > the machine. > > Effectively what you did was create a one-sided mirrored volume with > one filesystem on it, then put your very important (but not important > enough to bother mirroring or backing up) data on it. Then you > unmounted the filesystem and ripped the active volume out of the > machine. You got away with it a couple of times because just how good > of a job the ZFS developers did at idiot proofing it, but when it > finally got to the point where you lost your data, you came here to > bitch and point fingers at everyone but the responsible party (hint, > it's you). When your ignorance (and fault) was pointed out to you, you > then resorted to personal attacks and slurs. Nice. Very professional. > Welcome to the bit-bucket. > All that and yet the fact remains: I've never "ejected" a USB drive from OS X or Windows, I simply pull it and go, and I've never once lost data, or had it become unrecoverable or even corrupted. And yes, I do keep checksums of all the data sitting on them and periodically check it. So, for all of your ranting and raving, the fact remains even a *crappy* filesystem like fat32 manages to handle a hot unplug without any prior notice without going belly up. --Tim
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