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On 12-05-02 6:34 PM, Simon wrote:
> Thank you Mark, that's what I thought, too. My major concern is the failure
> of drives, not so much the hot-swapping. I can live with taking the machine
> offline, replacing the drive(s), and booting up. Yanking the drives out from live
> system is the only way I can simulate a hard failure. Without this working, I
> cannot be sure the system will remain running should a drive go bad. I'm
> not sure how the system would handle this given ahd cannot handle pulling
> of hot drives out.  I will try to get in touch with the driver maintainer.
>
> Thanks again!
> -Simon

One way to simulate a "failure" with ZFS is to use dd to write trash data to the underlying drive, and then scrub it to detect the errors and have it correct itself.


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Daryl Richards
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