On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Cindy Swearingen wrote: >>> >>> unless you use copies=2 or 3, in which case your data is still safe >>> for those datasets that have this option set. >> >> This advice is a little too optimistic. Increasing the copies property >> value on datasets might help in some failure scenarios, but probably not >> in more catastrophic failures, such as multiple device or hardware >> failures. > > It is 100% too optimistic. The copies option only duplicates the user data. > While zfs already duplicates the metadata (regardless of copies setting), > it is not designed to function if a vdev fails.
Sorry about that. I thought it was already supported with some --force option. My bad. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
