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LisPi on Nostr: We're not exactly spoiled for reliable self-repairing data-integrity filesystems. ...

We're not exactly spoiled for reliable self-repairing data-integrity filesystems.

(No, doing without is not a reasonable option. [Reliable hardware raid is long dead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI) and software raid has to ensure integrity itself because drives frequently fail to report errors & corruption. I'm not sure if dm-integrity+lvm-raid+ext4 (data=journal) equivalents exist in the BSDs, but the performance of that combination is also abysmal.)

HAMMER2's documentation is a promising "maybe in the future" but for now there's btrfs (which has considerable issues, is being slopped and exclusively exists on Captain Slopvalds' kernel) and ZFS.