On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Joe Koberg wrote: > Correct. Hardware RAID is "blind" to whats actually in the sectors. =A0Yo= u > can do better from a reliability standpoint. ZFS un-layers the storage > stack, so the filesystem, volume manager, and storage devices all work > better together. > > For example: Outside of idling the disks and waiting for the controller > to "patrol read" the entire disk surface, how do you read-verify both > halves of a RAID-1 mirror? =A0You can't just run through the device with > "dd" or whatever, because it will only read half the mirror. =A0However, > the ZFS "scrub" command is intended for precisely this purpose. > > btrfs is promising but doesn't seem ready to deploy in production. Thank you very much for the replies. I'm heavily leaning towards the usage of ZFS via BSD at this point. Still working out some usage statistics for the kind of processor I need, etc. But the storage problem is my biggest question right now. Thanks once again. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .