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I am running raidz1 on a 5-disk home fileserver with the philosophy that if I do get bitten by a multiple drive failure or latent bad sectors during a rebuild,
by tesseract 10y ago
I am running raidz1 on a 5-disk home fileserver with the philosophy that if I do get bitten by a multiple drive failure or latent bad sectors during a rebuild, I can count on zfs to tell me which files were affected and then I'll just restore them from backup. (Unlike md raid where rebuilds seem to be much more all-or-nothing.) My underlying assumptions here are:
* A disk failure where some moderate number of sectors become unreadable is far more likely than a disk going completely toast.
* Even if I were running raidz2 or raidz3 I'd still want the offsite backups in case of some disaster befalling the entire array (or more likely, me accidentally rm'ing something)
* It's a home fileserver used mostly for archival purposes. Unlike a business scenario, the loss of availability while I restore from backup is not going to hurt too badly.
Did I miss something here or do you think this is sound?
- MattSteelblade 10y agoLooks good to me.