On Mar 30, 2009, at 19:13, Michael Shadle wrote:
Normally it seems like raid5 is perfectly fine for a workoad like this but maybe I'd sleep better at night knowing I could have 2 disks fail, but the odds of that are pretty slim. I've never had 2 disks fail, and if I did, the whole array is probably failed / the actual unit itself got damaged, and then probably more than the 2 disks have been destroyed anyway.
Given ZFS' checksums, it's quite amazing what it can survive: http://tinyurl.com/ytyzs6 http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/22/bingodisk-and-strongspace-what-happened They also discuss it on their podcast as well: http://tinyurl.com/29msbb http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/24/new-podcast-quad-core-episode-2 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
