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> Zfs doesn't support a bunch of things. I am well aware of this, having been running production systems with it since 2008, shortly after it stopped silently
by rodgerd 12y ago
> Zfs doesn't support a bunch of things.
I am well aware of this, having been running production systems with it since 2008, shortly after it stopped silently and irretrievably corrupting data.
> It was designed for Sun's customers, for whom having backup for the whole pool, or having a whole second pool to stream to, is not a big deal.
The idea that I have to destroy and re-create pools for so many no especially uncommon events is one that runs pretty counter to the way ZFS generally does a good job of being an enterprise filesystem. "Throw it away and restore from backup" is not a good answer.
- cbsmith 12y ago> "Throw it away and restore from backup" is not a good answer. Honestly, when you think about the life cycle of many storage systems, it is pretty reasonable. Once the drives get to a certain age, you tend to have to replace them anyway, and after the array is beyond a certain age, you want to replace the whole thing. It makes a certain sick sense to expect a lot of enterprise customers to have a strategy for fail over to a new storage pool.