Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:51:06 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How safe is ZFS to use for a home user? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0712220950040.85589@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <20071222163838.199f0811@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <c68396460712211201x25e83575w419170b64784cbf3@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0712211927290.85589@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <c68396460712211934q771eb921g90257246abd6298b@mail.gmail.com> <20071222163838.199f0811@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:34:07 -0500 > "John Klimek" <jklimek@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anybody ever lost data due to any bugs or anything like that? I'm >> going to use this ZFS as my primary storage medium (and poor man's >> backup solution), so I would be devastated if I lost my entire array >> due to a bug or other issue (aside from losing two hard drives in a >> three hard drive RAID-Z array). >> > > I lost a mirror on 2 SATA drives when I installed a new mobo. A plain > ZFS concatenation of 2 partitions on a SCSI drive didn't get lost. I've > never lost data due to a crash. If it was a zfs mirror, you probably could have recovered it with a forced import or something similar. > > Might have been pilot error. Might have had something to do with the > way the new mobo assigned the disks. Luckily I had a backup of the > really important stuff.
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