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Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by gavinhoward on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:44AM (#38553573)
You're completely wrong.

ZFS's scrub is both a check and a repair tool. It's already saved some of my data.

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Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by hdjdkdbdbe on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:02AM (#38554008)
You are partly right. Zfs scrub is a repair tool when it has parity / mirrored copy of data to recreate it.
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Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by Borealid on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:09AM (#38554429)
A scrub can also repair data when using `ncopies` greater than one even outside any mirrors or parity.
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Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by danparsonson on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:46AM (#38554277)
It's safe to make the assumption that the tool isn't magic.
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