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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:05:44 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Talley <brooks@illuminati.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS corrupting data, even just sitting idle
Message-ID:  <20071002210544.GB5375@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <30482584.83141191352060006.JavaMail.root@zmail.illuminati.org>
References:  <3939DF4C-D688-40B2-9A9A-1400E528AB07@online.no> <30482584.83141191352060006.JavaMail.root@zmail.illuminati.org>

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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:07:40PM -0700, Brooks Talley wrote:
> I do apologize for the subject-verb construction that implied that ZFS it=
self, or the ZFS code, or anyone responsible for ZFS, or the letter "Z", wa=
s corrupting the data rather than merely being subject to the corruption, o=
r at most a potential suspect.  I should have said "A storage system compri=
sed of ZFS filesystem, the underlying geom system, the kernel, the ATA driv=
er, the firmware and hardware on the SATA card, the PCI bridge, the SATA ca=
bles, the drives themselves, the power supply, system case, and surrounding=
 environment including temperature, humidity, and RF fields, is corrupting =
its data".  I just figured that was implicit and that we were all results-o=
riented rather than blame-oriented.  Sorry!

Simple s/corrupting/detecting corruption/ would do:)
No worries, you are not the first one.

For me it's just quite interesting to observe how people live for years
with h/w corrupting their data and only putting ZFS there reveals the
problems. I wonder how many strange UFS-related problems/panics reported
over the years are due to buggy hardware.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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