John Paul Wohlscheid over at It's FOSS takes a look at the ZFS file system and its capabilities. He mainly covers OpenZFS which is the fork made since Oracle bought and shut down Solaris which was the original host of ZFS. It features pooled storage with RAID-like capabilities, copy-on-write with snapshots, data integrity verification and automatic repair, and it can handle files up to 16 exabytes in size, with file systems of up to 256 quadrillion zettabytes in size should you have enough electricity to pull that off. Because it started development under a deliberately incompatible license, ZFS cannot be directly integrated in Linux. However, several distros work around that and provide packages for it. It has been ported to FreeBSD since 2008.
(Score: 1) by woodcruft on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:25PM (1 child)
On FreeBSD you have to enable routine scrubs using periodic(8). Eg:
Of course, you can override those defaults in: /etc/periodic.conf
No idea what the situation is with ZFS on Linux. I prefer to use an OS where ZFS is a "1st class citizen", to be honest.
:wq!
(Score: 2) by pendorbound on Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:30PM
You just cron scrubs on Linux. Works identically.