As I understand it BTRFS and ZFS are the only two viable options if you want protection against bitrot in Debian.
I have heard about ZFS requiring ECC RAM otherwise it might corrupt the whole file system.
Is this true for BTRFS also?
I also wonder how the bitrot protection actually works in BTRFS.
Does it send a system message when it detects a corrupted file or does it automatically recover the file?
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BTRFS and bitrot protection
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Re: BTRFS and bitrot protection
Yeah it's a nice article. But the problem is I don't have any raid configuration.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... lesystems/
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The article says that the file system automatically corrects bitrot issues by comparing checksums of the mirror.
The question is what happens if I run BTRFS on a non-raid setup?
Hopefully it still warns me in the kernel log, right?
I backup all my files off site so all I need is a warning so I can restore the corrupted file.
They don't mention ECC RAM so I guess that's just applicable to ZFS?
Here's some info on what can happen if don't run ECC RAM on a ZFS system:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?th ... zfs.15449/