Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Nov 2009 23:42 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris "There is a discussion at osnews.com about a simple question: "Should ZFS Have a fsck Tool?". The answer is simple: No. I could stop now, as this answer is pretty obvious when you work a while with ZFS, but i want to explain my position. And i want to ask a different question at the end."
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by Kebabbert on Sat 7th Nov 2009 12:19 UTC
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"One: The user has never tried another filesystem that tests for end-to-end data integrity, so ZFS notices more problems, and sooner.

Two: If you lost data with another filesystem, you may have overlooked it and blamed the OS or the application, instead of the inexpensive hardware."