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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:52:21 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Subject:   Re: constant zfs data corruption
Message-ID:  <73C3E69D-07EC-4266-87AB-97E37D0EED1C@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081020171927.GB8551@icarus.home.lan>
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On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> He's not getting working filesystem redundancy with the existing  
>> config
>> and is vulnerable to losing data from a single drive failure, agreed.
>> But the ZFS checksum mechanism should still be working to detect data
>> corruption, even though ZFS cannot recover the corrupted data the  
>> way it
>> otherwise would if redundancy was available.
>
> Ahh, I see.  So to paraphrase, ZFS can detect checksum errors (data
> corruption) using any pool type (single disk, mirror, raidz,  
> whatever),
> but can only *repair* the error when using a mirror or raidz.

I think that should be the case, yes.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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