Comment by CTDOCodebases
9 hours ago
What do you use for external parity? Par2?
If you were to replace your current drive with a new larger one and your RAM or your SATA controller silently corrupted the files how would things play out? Would these corrupted files propegate to the backups?
Ext4 is battle tested so I understand your reasoning. I think you just need to figure out a way to detect silent corruption and a way to snapshot your files in case they do get corrupted.
From experience I can tell you that it is an absolute pain having to manually sort through a bunch of files trying to detect which ones are corrupt and which ones are good.
Misspoke. I didn't mean that type of parity, but just hashes, and a matching drive (in make and capacity) externally for an exact copy.