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Re:HFS+ Bit Rot by rcthompson on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:55AM (#7876759)

So, what is a better filesystem that I can use with OS X for storing my data? EXT3 via FUSE driver? NTFS via NTFS-3G driver? ZFS via whichever ZFS-on-OSX fork is the current one for this month? FAT? ExFAT?

Or just back it up daily over the network to a Linux server in my closet?

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Re:HFS+ Bit Rot by therealmarv on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:57AM (#7877157)

I agree. What is the alternative? Are the 26 files silently bad or does OS X say about this? Is Ext2-4 better than HFS+, is NTFS better? For sure ZFS is better... but is any of this standard file systems better (NTFS, EXT)? Is there any research? Maybe he would also get 26 bad files with NTFS and EXT3. This whole article is blurry for me.

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Re:HFS+ Bit Rot by lallysingh on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @10:16AM (#7878089)

The article described how the photos decoded wrong. Sounds like OS X left them alone without noticing the problem. Instead, the user's attempt to read the files personally (when else do you decide?) detected the errors.

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Re:HFS+ Bit Rot by justincormack on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @11:55AM (#7878655)

Use a FreeBSD based NAS with ZFS I guess is the best option. Not sure daily backups will help if it is being corrupted, as you will overwrite the good data at some point.

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