As long as you create your data and metadata with a mirror policy, you can 
use btrfs scrubbing to find and correct broken data blocks. I think latest 
kernels also so this "repairing" online.

It works by finding a mirrored block with correct checksum if the block in 
question has a bad checksum.

Jaromir Zdrazil <jaromir.zdra...@email.cz> schrieb:

> Hi again,
> 
>    I know that ZFS include data integrity verification against data
>    corruption modes using propably SHA256.
> 
>    By sketchy readings at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.html ,
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs and other sources I have found just
>    that there is Sha32C used and that it should be similar to ZFS.
> 
>    How are data faults detected and repaired ni BRTFS? If the answer could
>    be simple and precize, I would be more than happy.
> 
> Thank you! Gone to lunch ;O)
> 
> Jaromir
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