Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read

Thu Dec 11 00:07:24 UTC 2014

> I'm just going to chime in here since I recently had to deal with bit-rot
> affecting a 6TB linux raid5 setup using mdadm (6x 1TB disks)
> 
> We couldn't rebuild because of 5 URE sectors on one of the other disks in
> the array after a power / ups issue rebooted our storage box.
> 
> We are now using ZFS RAIDZ and the question I ask myself is, why wasn't I
> using ZFS years ago?
> 
> +1 for ZFS and RAIDZ

I hope you are NOT using RAIDZ.  The chances of an error showing up
during a resilver is uncomfortably high and there are no automatic 
tools to fix pool corruption with ZFS.  Ideally use RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3
to provide more appropriate levels of protection.  Errors introduced
into a pool can cause substantial unrecoverable damage to the pool,
so you really want the bitrot detection and correction mechanisms to
be working "as designed."

... JG
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