*This is my second attempt to send this to the list. If it shows up
twice, I apologize.
We had a situation last year in which one of the aggregates on our R100
suffered dirty parity in one of its raid groups which forced us to take
the filer down for several hours while we ran WAFL_Check on that
aggregate. Given this, I have a few questions:
1. What is the likelihood of getting dirty parity? I assume the
likelihood goes up dramatically on a box like the R100 given that the
weekly RAID scrubs seldom if ever complete.
2. If this had occurred on a cluster, could we take one node down
to run the WAFL_Check, while the other node continues to serve data from
the other aggregates?
3. How many of you have encountered something like this and
decided to go with SyncMirror to protect against such a thing?
Thanks,
--Carl