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So, you were not using a striped mirror ZFS for a prod database? What could go wrong, yep.
by pshirshov 5mo ago
So, you were not using a striped mirror ZFS for a prod database? What could go wrong, yep.
- r1chk1t 5mo agolearned the hard way
- justinclift 5mo agoYet at the end it still has this: > I did some research, and a RAID wouldn’t have saved it either, RAID protects against drive failure, not against silent page corruption that gets faithfully replicated to every mirror. That being said, the article has some strong signal of AI writing in it. So it's possible the author isn't really learning well from the experience either. :(
- pshirshov 5mo agoZFS and ECC do protect against silent page corruption that gets faithfully replicated to every mirror.
- justinclift 5mo agoYeah, that was my point. The author seems to have gotten things wrong in some fundamental way.
- sitzkrieg 5mo agothe article describes why they can’t use zfs due to windows server requirements. this is the right choice because zfs on windows is completely garbage
- evanjrowley 5mo agoGiven the Windows constraint, a better recommendation would have been Microsoft's Resilient File System (ReFS): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/ref...