[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:58:24PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I think what they're saying is that their RAID-Z can automatically
> detect, and transparently handle, read errors on the media that do not
> actually involve complete hardware failure.  In short, anyone's RAID can
> handle a failed disk, but ZFS can handle it when the disk is just
> starting to go bad and is dropping bits, and identify exactly which disk
> block it was that returned bad data even if the disk's ECC didn't catch
> or flag it.

There was a weblog post a week or two ago about one of the guys at Sun
who had a bad disk and didn't notice - because RAID-Z / ZFS kept the 
data intact...  I'll see if I can dig it up.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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