Comment by nickik

> ZFS is the ultimate "pet" in the pets vs. cattle continuum. in a world where shoddy engineering and "break things fast" is the zeitgeist,

Live storage is never 'cattle', that is idiotic your running filesystem IS actually a pet. Harddrives are 'cattle' and that's exactly what ZFS treats like 'cattle'.

ZFS was born out of long frustrations with file system and was systematically designed to protect against data corruption and bad hardware. It is literally the exact opposite of 'move fast and break things'.

Go and actually watch the videos where the designer show it for the first time. It speaks very clearly about how and why they designed it.

> i would not risk any of my personal treasured data to ZFS due to inherent existential threats. i would implore ZFS users to evaluate and test their setups, and especially use ECC RAM - like, starting now - to protect their assets.

ZFS has always recommended ECC to its users. No filesystem can protect you from not having it.