Re: btrfs/ZFS, sans raid and bitrot

[Anthony Shipman]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:12:45 pm Russell Coker wrote:
> BTRFS in a default configuration will use "dup" for metadata.  So a bad 
> metadatablock can be corrected.  But a bad data block causes data loss -
>  at  least you know you have data loss (as opposed to silent data
>  corruption on older filesystems).
> 
What does data loss look like? Does the whole file become unavailable or
are there just error codes delivered along with the data?
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Anthony Shipman                    Mamas don't let your babies 
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