[coldtea]

And yet, neither Windows, nor Linux, nor macOS does anything special about it for consumer/90% of professional use, and the sky hasn't fallen.

[michaelmrose]

Earlier cars were terrible death traps and we were told crashes at highway speeds were unsurvivable.

People died in mangled messes but the sky didn't fall then either.

The status quo is rarely a sufficient argument because the human race is pretty much terrible at everything improving things only slowly, incrementally accruing useful strategies and procedures.

We built bridges well via centuries of practice, software is less mature.

[coldtea]

>The status quo is rarely a sufficient argument

And I didn't say it is. My answer was to the parent who singled-out Apple as somehow special in neglecting this.

[michaelmrose]

They are writing a new filesystem today and neglecting this they are special and not in a good way.

[asveikau]

Nitpick: I can think of one thing NTFS does proactively about this problem. Just not anything good. Googled and found: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/doxley/2008/10/29/self-h...

In my time at Microsoft I did see a number of workarounds for bad disks in Windows source, in ntfs.sys and elsewhere.

However I agree with your overall assessment, it's not as if anyone is running zfs or similar as a default.

[toyg]

To be honest, I have a long list of friends, especially in creative professions where people struggle with setting up reliable backups. There is a reason Dropbox and other cloud drives were so successful. Any improvement on the data integrity front is very welcome.