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Running ZFS for many years has shown, yes, this happens, and will continue to get worse as density goes up.


Density is exactly the problem. The chances of an unrecoverable error are around 1 per trillion! But oh wait, you have 2 trillion bits on that disk?


I've been running ZFS on several servers with tenfolds of TB's with data. I see checksum errors every month, from a single bit to several megabytes.


That sounds like you have something else wrong. With ECC memory on server hardware, we've seen 0 checksum errors in the last 6 months and I've seen only 2 ever. A typical server has 136TB of raw hdd space and we get about 71TiB usable. It's about 80% full.




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