Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Nov 2009 23:42 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"There is a discussion at osnews.com about a simple question: "Should ZFS Have a fsck Tool?". The answer is simple: No. I could stop now, as this answer is pretty obvious when you work a while with ZFS, but i want to explain my position. And i want to ask a different question at the end."
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RE[3]: Contradictory post...
by Dryhte on Sat 7th Nov 2009 17:15
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Member since:2008-02-05
The point is: You shouldn't use such devices with other filesystems, too. Just say NO to such disks. With ZFS you just recognize those error. Since i'm running regular scrubs over my datasets on my home fileservers, i'm pretty disappointed about the quality of SOHO drives.
BTW: When you are using disks directly with SATA or SAS, you won't see such problems. Those disks are reasonably biggest-mistakes free. The problems start, when you have some cheap SATA/PATA to Firewire or USB converters.
BTW: When you are using disks directly with SATA or SAS, you won't see such problems. Those disks are reasonably biggest-mistakes free. The problems start, when you have some cheap SATA/PATA to Firewire or USB converters.
ah, but since nobody tells us how to recognize 'those' disks, you can say NO as often as you want without the slightest effect. So unless someone comes up with a HCL or a sort of product matrix which tells you how to recognize 'bad' disks, there will be a need for a way to restore broken zfs filesystems to a usable state.
RE[4]: Contradictory post...
by c0t0d0s0 on Sat 7th Nov 2009 18:02
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RE[4]: Contradictory post...
by c0t0d0s0 on Sat 7th Nov 2009 18:03
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Member since:2008-10-16
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2008-10-16
The point is: You shouldn't use such devices with other filesystems, too. Just say NO to such disks. With ZFS you just recognize those error. Since i'm running regular scrubs over my datasets on my home fileservers, i'm pretty disappointed about the quality of SOHO drives.
BTW: When you are using disks directly with SATA or SAS, you won't see such problems. Those disks are reasonably biggest-mistakes free. The problems start, when you have some cheap SATA/PATA to Firewire or USB converters.