RBPI3B+ FreeBSD 12 ZFS

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2019-Feb-22 11:47:37 -0600, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
>Uh uh.  Yes, a scrub (or just checksum check on the read) will catch the
>"aw crap!" situation where write amplification and read/rewrite hoses
>you during a power failure but there's nothing zfs can do to fix it
>since there's no second copy available.

That's not completely true.  By default ZFS stores 2 copies of most
metadata and can be configured to store up to 3 copies (on top of pool
redundancy) of all data (check the "copies" and "redundant_metadata"
properties of the filesystem).  Obviously, if all the copies are on
one device, it won't help if the device bricks itself or all the
copies wind up on the corrupt sectors but it can help recovering from
a glitch that took out a page or two.  (It would also be possible to
setup a ZFS mirror between a SDcard and a USB flash stick).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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