> However, we do have the advantage of always knowing when something
> is corrupted, and knowing what that particular block should have been. 

We also have ditto blocks for all metadata, so that even if any block
of ZFS metadata is destroyed, we always have another copy.
Bill Moore describes ditto blocks in detail here:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bill?entry=ditto_blocks_the_amazing_tape

Jeff

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