+1, zfs and hammer are great filesystems for such a use.
Looking forward to RAID10 support on softraid (!).
On 20 July 2016 at 15:08, Kamil Cholewiński <harry6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Miles Keaton <mileskea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I figure if I use OpenBSD + softraid RAID 5 (across 4 disks) and then
>> write my own little shell script to track the MD5 (find . -type f -exec
md5
>> {} \;) whenever I make changes, that should be enough to see if a file has
>> been changed due to disk corruption.
>
> This will detect corruption, but won't fix it. ZFS fixes corrupted files
> on the fly, when possible, and updates on-disk parity to sustain another
> hit on the same file.
>
> Also I would rather recommend you use RAID10, with drives from two
> different batches.
