[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

[Ray Arachelian]

On 06/25/2012 05:20 PM, Martin Frost wrote:
>  > My guess is that since all the pools are by default set to have failmode
>  > set to "wait" on failure, it'll wait forever.
>  > 
>  > Now, changing it to "continue" which will return an error, but it could
>  > lead to worse behavior in some cases.  (You could set it to panic also,
>  > but you'll like that far less.)
>
> Why should it return an error when no data has been lost yet, given
> the redundancy (which is all that's lost so far)?
>

Exactly my point:  In some cases, such as this, you want it to wait, in
others, where there's no chance of it ever coming back, you don't.