zfs discuss - Apr 2007 - Outdated FAQ entry

Hi,

The following FAQ entry seems to be outdated or at least misleading:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#zfspanic

I believe this has been fixed since the introduction of ditto blocks,
which keeps redundant blocks of metadata (at least that''s what I think
the FAQ author was referring to when he/she said it was going to be
fixed in the near future).

Background scrubbing and the possibility to see a list of corrupted
files is already working for a long time.

That FAQ entry might scare some people from trying ZFS, so I think this
should be fixed :)

Regards,
Ricardo Correia

Hello Ricardo,

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 10:15:33 PM, you wrote:

RC> Hi,

RC> The following FAQ entry seems to be outdated or at least misleading:
RC> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#zfspanic

RC> I believe this has been fixed since the introduction of ditto blocks,
RC> which keeps redundant blocks of metadata (at least that''s what I
think
RC> the FAQ author was referring to when he/she said it was going to be
RC> fixed in the near future).

IMHO it has nothing to do with ditto blocks.


RC> Background scrubbing and the possibility to see a list of corrupted
RC> files is already working for a long time.

True.

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There are still some cases of corrupted pools that cause panics at boot (see
some of the threads from the past few weeks), so the FAQ probably needs to stay
for now.
 
 
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