Re: zfs corruption at zroot/usr/home:<0x0>

On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:18:39 +0100
Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:

> Hmm this is brand new NVME drive not really likely to fail. I have the
> same problem on zraid0 (stripe) array while initially I saw the bad
> file name with 3 problems (vm image) it now turned into
> ztuff/vm:<0x482>. Charlie Foxtrot :-(

Personally I still prefer the hardware RAID. For years I've used second
hand LSI 9260-8i cards I bought on ebay and not noticed any corruption
issues.

ZFS has nice features like checksumming and snapshots, however if I
need ZFS then I deploy it on top of a hardware RAID virtual drive. I
know people will frown up this configuration, but if I notice any issues
with ZFS, I can easily switch to UFS and keep the benefits of the
hardware RAID.

I could be wrong, but I sort of feel the ancient firmware on a hardware
RAID card is more stable than the large and complex codebase of ZFS
that is constantly refactored and improved by many people.