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

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Thu Aug 10 10:11:50 CDT 2006


On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:06:00AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Better yet, dig up some reason why this is a good thing.

You're right! Having corrupt data and not realising is a far better option
than not having corrupt data and not realising!

(The only reason he wouldn't have noticed the problem was that he wasn't
monitoring the system - that's hardly a fault of the software!)

  Scott.



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