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by masklinn 1751 days ago
> We tend to think that in a digital world bits are just bits and do not get corrupted — which is decidedly untrue.

That it’s not true is pretty much the reason why ZFS was created, though lots of people still don’t want to hear it, including companies (APFS only cows and checksums metadata for instance).

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Agreed. I’m researching changing my unraid server over to ZFS as soon as possible. Looks very doable although my hope is that the developers support it out-of-the-box sometime soon.