Nice article. Short answer is yes, ZFS will heal a file regardless of size
or level of activity on it, then.

Not only that, but it would be a recommended configuration if you want to *rule
out* bitrot/corruption for the the likes of "Need help /tips
SQLITE_CONSTRAINT: abort at 42" (this mail list).

- Paul

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Kees Nuyt <k.n...@zonnet.nl> wrote:

> [Default] On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 05:02:40 -0400, Paul Hammant
> <p...@hammant.org> wrote:
>
> > ZFS, Btrfs could repair a Fossil database inflight, and without hiccup?
> > Tell me a little more - it would repair sectors, blocks, segments of the
> > whole Fossil image?  Or the whole image?  It seems that replacing the
> whole
> > image would be wrong, and replacing sectors/blocks/segments/sections
> would
> > be impossible if you want Fossil to not be corrupt in some other way.  I
> > wrote that because "data being  checksummed" is ambiguous.
>
> Please read:
>
> https://blogs.oracle.com/timc/entry/demonstrating_zfs_self_healing
> or any other article on ZFS and self healing.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Kees Nuyt
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