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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RE[6]: Contradictory post...
by c0t0d0s0 on Sat 7th Nov 2009 19:46 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Contradictory post..."
c0t0d0s0
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I see a clear distinction between a tool that checks the metadata of a filesystem and fixes it (the fsck) and a methdod to jump back to an slightly oder state. As far as i understand the article of the OP, the thought explicitly of a tool.

In my opinion the filesystem shouldn't fix any data in such situation and just fall back to an older state, as it's absolutly unkown what state on disk is at filesystem other than ZFS.

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