Agreed, turning on more safety features will always make you... safer :) But it's worth noting that I've debugged corruptions in prod systems where: - corrupt

Agreed, turning on more safety features will always make you... safer :) But it's worth noting that I've debugged corruptions in prod systems where: - corrupted data was read from disk -- a bit flip, with no error code at the time -- by an application - the application operated on it - and the application then wrote the result -- still carrying the bit flip -- back to a new file on disk. Ouch. The bitflip is now baked in and even looks like a legit block as far as the disk is concerned. The disk failed not long after, of course -- SMART status caught up, etc. But that was days later. Checksums on read address this. I never want to run a system without them again.