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Re:Silent Data Corruption Is Real by bestham on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:06AM (#13865394)
Is it not "5 choose 4" since one of the 6 is a "known bad" in terms of ZFS knowledge?
Re:Silent Data Corruption Is Real by mrb on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:48AM (#13868494)
ZFS does not know which disk(s) caused the silent data corruption. It first assumes only 1 disk is bad and makes 4 attempts to rebuild it. It assumes successively each one of the 4 data stripes is bad, and rebuilds it from the parity stripes. But if it still cannot rebuild the correct data it means 2 disks are bad, so it tries 15 combinations of data/parity stripes to rebuild the 4 data stripes (well... minus the combination of "4 data stripes" which is already known bad, so the 14 other combinations are tested).