On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:08 PM, 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.Yes, similar functionality is in RAID1C patch I posted on tech@ in the past. Life is too intense now so I barely work on this to update it following Joel Sing requirements. Anyway, someday I hope to push it again to tech@
