Re: one reason why i like zfs

Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

I noticed a disk failure just now on one of the drives in my main pool - heard the clicking sound of repeated access attempts so I looked at what 'zpool status' said:

pool: export state: DEGRADED

I read this as "it didn't email me about its degraded state, so if it was racked, I'd never have known until it was too late" :-)