Ted> Thanks for the reply, John.
You're welcome.
Ted> With this solution, aren't you concerned that something relevant Ted> could appear in one of those 8k chunks that WAFL writes? Several Ted> credit card or social security numbers might be strung in there.
Not really since it's mostly engineering design data on our disks, and because we're not paranoid (or rich enough) to be able to afford to just trash the disks.
It's a calculated trade-off. We assume that NetApp does the right thing and crunches the disks once they have done a failure analysis back in their labs.
But I'm also new at this company and not up on all their historical reasons for doing certain things.
As a counter question, what do you do when you upgrade disk shelves and disks? Do others just trash all 14 72gb disks in a DS14 shelve when you upgrade to 144gb disks? Ouch...
John