Re: What is difference between zfs and ufs?

Wojciech Puchar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
>
> I have actually experienced silent data corruption myself, several times over 
> the last couple decades. In one case, it was a memory corruption issue by a 
> driver in FreeBSD with a HiPoint controller. Thankfully I still had another 
> copy of the data, but ZFS would have alerted me much sooner. Checksums are 
> definitely not just a marketing feature.
>
ZFS won't protect you with memory corruption. It will just write bad data 
and calculate checksum of it
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