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by douglasheriot 4016 days ago
Wow, that sucks. Another reason to use ZFS – you’d notice the corrupted files a lot sooner.
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Yup. I was seeing occasional corruption with my SanDisk Extreme Pro's and quite happy that ZFS was able to repair the damage each time.

The problem appears to have gone away following a firmware update, touch wood.

Or run a verification layer on top of whatever FS you use (e.g. running git fsck would discover corruption in your git indexed files too).
Or Btrfs on Linux.
In theory, yes. Unfortunately, every time my Btrfs filesystems have encountered a hardware glitch, it has happily trashed the filesystem beyond recovery (including both drives in a RAID1 mirror, one of which was perfectly OK). I use ZFS now, and while some features are compatable with Btrfs, the implementation quality, documentation, and feature completeness, and tool quality set it well above where Btrfs is at.
I fully second that: I'm using btrfs for / and ZFS for /srv. So many rashed filesystems beyond recovery on btrfs, so many joy, stability and easy tools for ZFS.

I'm really about to consider to migrate / to ZFS now.