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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2008-10-16
Tony, this has nothing to do with Sun hardware snobbery ... i'm using several el-cheapo disks with plain-standardard onboard/PCIe SATA-controllers.
We talked about failure modes, that are the consequence of buggy implementation. And as data is the most important stuff you have, it's not snobbery, it's a necessity to throw such components into the next trash bin ... like a floppy disk with a fingerprint on it. And this is even more important, when you don't have a filesystem with end-to-end integrity like ZFS, as you can't check if your data is still correct.
I threw out every USB drive from my setup: It's just plain eSATA for all my external enclosure needs (no protocol conversion/less problems). I'm just using USB hard drives as a bigger floppy .... but i would never place important data on them alone.