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toby

2006-11-13, 8:17 am


Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> toby wrote:
>
> ZFS is not proof against silent errors - they can still occur. It is
> possible for it to miss an error, also. Plus it is not proof against
> data decaying after it is written to disk.


Actually both capabilities are among its strongest features.

Clearly you haven't read or understood any of the publicly available
information about it, so I'm not going to pursue this any further
beyond relating an analogy:
You will likely live longer if you look both ways before crossing
the road, rather than walking straight across without looking because
"cars will stop".

> ...
> But when properly implemented, RAID-1 and RAID-10 will detect and
> correct even more errors than ZFS will.


I'll let those with more patience refute this.

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