On May 28, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010, Gregory J. Benscoter wrote: >> I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If this >> occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit flop occurred >> in be the only degraded file? Lastly how does the reliability of this plan >> compare to more traditional backup tools like tar, cpio, etc…? > > The whole stream will be rejected if a single bit is flopped. Tar and cpio > will happily barge on through the error.
... without reporting the error. Silent errors can be worse than detected errors :-( -- richard -- Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com +1-760-896-4422 ZFS and NexentaStor training, Rotterdam, July 13-15, 2010 http://nexenta-rotterdam.eventbrite.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
