[OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken zpool

Rainer Heilke rheilke at dragonhearth.com
Thu Oct 29 08:34:45 UTC 2015


Jason has been suggesting this, or some other variant of it. With the 
current problems I'm having, I'll be looking at doing something along 
these lines once I'm back up and running.

Rainer

On 28/10/2015 12:02 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>
> Absolutely Bob,
>
> I know that the OP wasn't happy to hear it, but Jason made a very good
> (reply) post that shared the comments that I'm sure that we were all
> thinking.
>
> I have a (Solaris admin) friend at another company who apparently has
> quite a few friends/colleagues/etc who are running Solaris or some
> Solaris based distro at home for ZFS based data storage, and he shared
> (what I feel) is a somewhat unique viewpoint for at home user who won't
> back up.
>
>  From a high level view, his comment to them is to NOT run a mirror.
> His suggestion to them is to just run a straight drive, then every
> evening or downtime, bring the other disk(s) online and sync them with
> the online master, using rsync, or your favorite utility, then once the
> sync is complete, offline the newly synced data and put it away.
>
> I realize that none of this helps the OP at this point, but this is
> presented as food for though, or a directly related item of discussion.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
> On 10/28/15 11:45 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
>> Regardless any zfs pool can fail, regardless of its theoretical level
>> of data
>> redundancy.
>>
>> Bob
>
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