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by mrb 4276 days ago
Actually you can correct data blocks, on a single-drive ZFS pool, if you set the attribute copies=2 (ditto blocks): https://blogs.oracle.com/relling/entry/zfs_copies_and_data_p... Obviously this redundancy feature makes you use twice the disk space you would normally use.
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yup, that's why I added "by default". a user won't get that functionality without explicitly asking for it.