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Subject: Re: Large raid arrays
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>> 
>
>
> ZFS was a disaster.
>
> That is what we were using until today, when the power went off  and the zfs 
> pool ended up corrupted and irrecoverable.

normal.

>
> Three other times we had power failures, the zpool ended with some errors.
>
> But, all the times, the UFS partitions remained intact.

indeed. and fsck time can be fast if you correctly set up block size and 
amount of inodes. i mean not too much inodes and large blocks (32-64K) if 
you store mostly big files.

> I won't use ZFS for a long time.
i would recommend never.