[rescue] Solaris ZFS questions

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/19/11 16:22, Zachary Giles wrote:
> So, this might be a silly question, but what does zpool scrub do? Is
> your data not safe until then?

Briefly, zpool scrub checks the status of the pool and the integrity of
the devices and data.

"Another reliability feature of ZFS pools is data scrubbing. One problem
with traditional file systems is that the reliability of any data thats
not referenced by the systems normal operation is unknown; you may have
errors that are silently lying in wait to be found when the data is
actually needed. To combat this hazard, ZFS provides a data-scrubbing
feature to verify the integrity of every block of data in a pool. During
a scrub operation, ZFS reads each block and verifies
it against its checksum. If it finds an error on a device that is part
of a mirror or raidz device, ZFS attempts to repair the block;
otherwise, the error is reported."



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