On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:05:29 -0500, Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> wrote:

>> Doesn't a scrub do more than what
>> 'fsck' does?
>>
> Not really.  fsck will work on an offline filesystem to correct errors and
> bring it back online.  Scrub won't even work until the filesystem is already
> imported and online. If it's corrupted you can't even import it, hence the
> -F flag addition.  Plus, IIRC, scrub won't actually correct any errors, it
> will only flag them.  Manually fixing what scrub finds can be a giant pain.

IIRC Scrub will correct errors if the pool has sufficient
redundancy. So will any read of a corrupted block.

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/selfheal
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  (  Kees Nuyt
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