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		rleigh on March 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silent Data Corruption Is Real Note it won't necessarily halve the capacity. Selectively enable it for the datasets requiring it, and avoid the overhead with the rest.

bestham on March 14, 2017 [–]

No but parity archives solves a different problem, with only some percent of wasted storage you can survive bit-errors in your dataset. It's like reed-solomon for files.

In order to achive the same with ZFS you have to run RAID-Z2 on sparse files.

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