ZFS won’t save you: fancy filesystem fanatics need to get a clue about bit rot
A few years ago I had a drive at home that was flipping bits, randomly corrupting my files.  It inspired me to build a ZFS disk server and introduce redundancy in my home setup.<p>A bunch of this article reads as if this scenario, which I in fact hit, won&#x27;t happen, drives do it better, etc.  But it happens.  It happened to me.  The drive did not &quot;magically fix itself&quot;, and instead got worse over time.  With ZFS, if it happens again, I can be told where it happened, exactly what files are affected, etc., and that&#x27;s already better than what I got with that other disk which didn&#x27;t have ZFS.<p>Plus the ZFS tools like snapshotting, send&#x2F;receive, scrub being able to check integrity while the system is running...  Those are great features.