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From: jay on 15 Mar 2010 12:27
On Mar 12, 6:13 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/13/10 11:53 AM, jay wrote:
>
> > On Mar 12, 4:00 pm, Ian Collins<ian-n...(a)hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
> >> Use ZFS.
>
> >> SVM setups tend to hang around a system like the smell of a dead rat,
> >> you never can quite get rid if it!
>
> [best not to quote sigs]
>
> > hmm.  yeah...  you've just made me realize that i think, at home,
> > i've done the worst of both worlds -- put a zfs filesystem on an
> > svm mirror.  i better check that.
>
> Never do that!
>
> > but aren't there some issues w/ using zfs when the boot disk gets
> > corrupted?  i saw a problem w/ that somewhere, saved the solution.
> > (it's at home.)  problems with the boot archive?  i don't know my way
> > around the boot archive, so i've been loathe to go there.  at home
> > i set up zfs before i heard of any problems.
>
> Boot archive corruptions can still occur, but they are rarer these days
> and they are largely unrelated to the underlying filesystem.  A ZFS
> mirror boot drive will give you a number of advantages, including
> healing corruption on one side of the mirror rather than mirroring it!
> You can protect against boot archive corruptions with snapshots.
>
> --
> Ian Collins

okay, i did check over the weekend
and i did avoid the mistake of putting a zfs filesystem
on a SVM mirror. so i feel better about that.

thanks. i think i better go find out about the boot archive.

j.
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