On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Philip Robar wrote:
corrupt, with redundancy it can fix the problem. With a single drive ZFS
pool you give up that integrity and there's a good chance that any data
corruption will then be passed on to your backup before ZFS flags it
resulting in the loss of that data.

I expect that zfs will detect checksum error during 'zfs send' similar to the way it detects checksum errors while reading data. Due to this, I don't buy it that data corruption might be passed to the backup while using zfs mechanims (other than due to zfs implementation bug). It can easily be silently corrupted by user or application error at a higher level though. Higher level corruption is where snapshots may save the day.

Otherwise, I agree with the other points you made.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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