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by pshirshov 45 days ago
So, you were not using a striped mirror ZFS for a prod database? What could go wrong, yep.
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sitzkrieg 44 days ago
the article describes why they can’t use zfs due to windows server requirements. this is the right choice because zfs on windows is completely garbage
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evanjrowley 42 days ago
Given the Windows constraint, a better recommendation would have been Microsoft's Resilient File System (ReFS): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/ref...
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r1chk1t 45 days ago
learned the hard way
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justinclift 45 days ago
Yet at the end it still has this:

> I did some research, and a RAID wouldn’t have saved it either, RAID protects against drive failure, not against silent page corruption that gets faithfully replicated to every mirror.

That being said, the article has some strong signal of AI writing in it. So it's possible the author isn't really learning well from the experience either. :(

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pshirshov 45 days ago
ZFS and ECC do protect against silent page corruption that gets faithfully replicated to every mirror.
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justinclift 44 days ago
Yeah, that was my point. The author seems to have gotten things wrong in some fundamental way.
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