[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

[Mike Meredith]

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:27:46 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >>
> >> ZFS = no (or limited) disasters.  Everything is checksummed and
> >> you can run a command that will check the checksums anytime you
> >> like while the system is running and the fs is still mounted r/w.
> > 
> > On a single drive, does it give you anything protection wise?
> 
> It will do the checksums, so if a cable is wonky or the controller is 
> bad you can tell.

I've often wondered about the value of the ZFS checksum calculation
(does it _really_ happen that much?) ... seems that it may do :-

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=3&sessionId=0&resId=1&materialId=paper&confId=13797

(sorry about the URL). 

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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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