It's because ZFS is much more than RAID. RAID just exposes a disk to the OS. ZFS exposes a filesystem and knows more metadata, e.g. the checksum, so it knows when to repair the data using the redundancy from the disks.
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I think this is a good introduction to PID for people who don't want to have to dive into the nitty gritty. Linear feedback controls is a complex but complete theory and it would take at least a semester at a university…
It's because ZFS is much more than RAID. RAID just exposes a disk to the OS. ZFS exposes a filesystem and knows more metadata, e.g. the checksum, so it knows when to repair the data using the redundancy from the disks.
You still haven't answered the question...
I think this is a good introduction to PID for people who don't want to have to dive into the nitty gritty. Linear feedback controls is a complex but complete theory and it would take at least a semester at a university…