Comment by montjoy

> Something solid with data integrity guarantees? You can’t beat ZFS, imo.

This reminds me. We had one file server used mostly for package installs that used ZFS for storage. One day our java package stops installing. The package had become corrupt. So I force a manual ZFS scrub. No dice. Ok fine I’ll just replace the package. It seems to work but the next day it’s corrupt again. Weird. Ok I’ll download the package directly from Oracle again. The next day again it’s corrupt. I download a slightly different version. No problems. I grab the previous problematic package and put it in a different directory (with no other copies on the file system) - again it becomes corrupt.

There was something specific about the java package that ZFS just thought it needed to “fix”. If I had to guess it was getting the file hash confused. I’m pretty sure we had dedupe turned on so that may have factored into it.

Anyway that’s the first and only time I’ve seen a file system munge up a regular file for no reason - and it was on ZFS.