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by redox99 1259 days ago
If you mean journaling file systems, no. They prevent data corruption in the case of system crash or power outage.

That's different from filesystems that do checksumming (zfs, btrfs). Those can detect corruption.

In any case, if you use a database it handles these things by itself (see ACID). However I don't believe they can necessarily detect disk corruption in all cases (like checksumming file systems).