“The fact you can't conceive of how this goes wrong is actually _illustrative_ of how Sun got screwed.“ I can very well concieve of it, as I’ve been preaching

“The fact you can't conceive of how this goes wrong is actually _illustrative_ of how Sun got screwed.“ I can very well concieve of it, as I’ve been preaching this to the Linux crowd for decades and they just don’t get it. By the way I know about Tandem because yes, I’m that old. Please, before you go preaching to the choir (me), read how ZFS works; if the drive totally completely lies about everything, if it silently corrupts data, first read from the drive will uncover it because the checksums won’t match. ZFS will still deliver good data if it has redundant copies and will attempt to overwrite the corrupt data automatically. 50% of the two memory chips in my Solaris storage server no longer function correctly; Solaris has automatically migrated the affected pages out of them. When I get new memory chips, I will off-line them and replace them. Tandem might have been even more robust, but its engineers didn’t continue working on it after the company’s demise like those Sun engineers did on illumos.