On 15/11/10 7:54 PM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote:
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> | On 2010-11-15 11:27:02, Toby Thain wrote:
> | 
> | > Backups are not going to save you from bad memory writing corrupted data 
> to
> | > disk.
> | 
> | It is, however, a major motive for using ZFS in the first place.
> 
> In this context, not trusting your disks is the motive. If corruption (even
> against metadata) happens in-memory, ZFS will happily write it to disk. 

The corruption will at least be detected by a scrub, even in cases where
it cannot be repaired.

--Toby

> Has
> this behavior changed in the last 6 months?

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