atom feed7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-fsHow safe is ZFS to use for a home user?
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John KlimekDec 21, 2007 12:27 pm 
Hugo SilvaDec 21, 2007 6:01 pm 
John KlimekDec 21, 2007 7:33 pm 
Wes MorganDec 21, 2007 8:11 pm 
Gary JennejohnDec 22, 2007 7:38 am 
Wes MorganDec 22, 2007 7:50 am 
Peter SchullerDec 24, 2007 4:44 pm 
Subject:How safe is ZFS to use for a home user?
From:Wes Morgan (morg@chemikals.org)
Date:Dec 22, 2007 7:50:51 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-fs

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:34:07 -0500 "John Klimek" <jkli@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.