From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:50:48 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120105184858.87B0BB858@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20120105124852.GA940@polynum.com> <20120105144810.182add7c@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <20120105151518.GB435@polynum.com> <74f17bd79e5a709683d94e72b4459623@lvoc.net> <20120105184858.87B0BB858@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 55c076f2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > You'd save a bunch of energy if you only powered up venti > disks once @ 4AM for a few minutes (and on demand when you > look at /n/dump). Though venti might have fits! And the disks > might too! So may be this calls for a two level venti? First > to an SSD RAID and a much less frequent venti/copy to hard > disks. > > venti doesn't have a "scrub" command, does it? zfs scrub was > instrumental in warning me that I needed new disks. they're using coraid storage. all this is taken care of for them by the SR appliance. - erik