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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:02:28 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ZFS kernel panic
Message-ID:  <20070828180228.GD39562@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20070828170242.1559F5B30@mail.bitblocks.com>
References:  <20070828165331.GA39562@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070828170242.1559F5B30@mail.bitblocks.com>

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:02:42AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > When you don't use redundant configuration (no mirror, no raidz, no
> > copies>1) then ZFS is going to panic on a write failure. It looks like
> > ZFS found a bad block on your disk.
>=20
> Does SUN really say this about ZFS?  Is this acceptable in a
> production environment?  What if one of your mirrored disk
> fails and in the "degraded" environment (before you have had
> a chance to replace the bad disk) ZFS discovers that a write
> fails?  Why can't it find an alternative block to write to?

There were many complains on zfs-discuss@, you may want to look into
archive. The short version is that many users doesn't like that, and it
should change in the future - because of COW model it should be quite
easy to just mark block as bad and take next one, but it's not currently
implemented. It's much less of a problem when one uses redundancy.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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