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I have a theory on this regarding consumer devices: Checksumming drives a lot of support calls that would otherwise not happen. As long as the errors are in m
by wstrange 10y ago
I have a theory on this regarding consumer devices:
Checksumming drives a lot of support calls that would otherwise not happen. As long as the errors are in media files and not meta-data, most consumers are going to be oblivious to bit rot in their downloaded movies and photos.
Enabling checksumming is going to reveal a lot of errors that would otherwise be silently ignored (spoken from experience running a ZFS media server)
- Freaky 10y agoThey could just checksum metadata, which is cheaper to store redundantly. ReFS already does this when you're running it on non-redundant storage - integrity streams are only enabled on mirrored/parity configurations.
- chongli 10y agoJust because you do checksumming doesn't mean you have to report those errors in a way that might frighten a non-technical user. How many regular Mac users sit there looking at the syslog all day?