Using ZFS as RAID0 - disk offline question

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 4 20:17:22 UTC 2012


On 04/06/2012 21:00, Kaya Saman wrote:
> in ZFS when using a simple RAID 0 style array is there a way to recover
> a pool after a disk has gone down?

No.  RAID0 has no resilience to disk failure.  That's why things like
RAID1, RAID10, RAIDz, RAIDz2 exist: so that your data will survive
failure of some number of the drives it is stored on.

Make sure you have good backups, basically.

	Cheers

	Matthew

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