Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Nov 2009 23:42 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"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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BTW: When you are using disks directly with SATA or SAS, you won't see such problems. Those disks are reasonably biggest-mistakes free. The problems start, when you have some cheap SATA/PATA to Firewire or USB converters.
ah, but since nobody tells us how to recognize 'those' disks, you can say NO as often as you want without the slightest effect. So unless someone comes up with a HCL or a sort of product matrix which tells you how to recognize 'bad' disks, there will be a need for a way to restore broken zfs filesystems to a usable state.