Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 16:16:04 +0000 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS... Message-ID: <CAOhm=5oRTkr6L037fzh4DKpqgMY5XJVp60t934en3%2BrGCnbFJw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30506b3d-64fb-b327-94ae-d9da522f3a48@sorbs.net> References: <30506b3d-64fb-b327-94ae-d9da522f3a48@sorbs.net>
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Your story is so unusual I am wondering if its not fiction, I mean all sorts of power cuts where it just so happens the UPS fails every time, then you decide to ship a server halfway round the world, and on top of that you get a way above average rate of hard drive failures. But aside from all this you managed to recover multiple times. ZFS is never claimed to be a get out of jail free card, but it did survive in your case multiple times, I suggest tho if you value redundancy, do not use RAIDZ but use Mirror instead. I dont know why people keep persisting with raid 5/6 now days with drives as large as they are. I have used ZFS since the days of FreeBSD 8.x and its resilience compared to the likes of ext is astounding and especially compared to UFS. Before marking it down think how would UFS or ext have managed the scenarios you presented in your blog. Also think about where you hosting your data with all your power failures and the UPS equipment you utilise as well. On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 16:26, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote: > > I know I'm not going to be popular for this, but I'll just drop it here > anyhow. > > http://www.michellesullivan.org/blog/1726 > > Perhaps one should reconsider either: > > 1. Looking at tools that may be able to recover corrupt ZFS metadata, or > 2. Defaulting to non ZFS filesystems on install. > > -- > Michelle Sullivan > http://www.mhix.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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