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ZFS pool redundancy

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:57
by MiG098
Hi everybody!
I've got four 2TB hard disks in a virtual device configured as single parity raid-z (raidz1) in my microserver with nas4free v.9.2.0.1 - Shigawire (revision 943) .
Is my information safe if one of my four hard disks fails?

Thanks!

Re: ZFS pool redundancy

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:34
by b0ssman
well yes and no.

raidz1 has 1 drive redundancy. so if 1 drive fails your data is still accessible.

if however during the resilver process another drive fails, your data will be gone.

so as always: Raid is not a backup. if your data is valuable, keep a backup.

Re: ZFS pool redundancy

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:51
by MiG098
Thank you b0ssman!