Having suffered from silent data corruption affecting some old photos that I only noticed years after it had happened (backups going back that far had already b

Having suffered from silent data corruption affecting some old photos that I only noticed years after it had happened (backups going back that far had already been purged), I'd argue that ZFS is appropriate for everyone who cares about their data. Given that ZFS will happily run on pretty much anything, I think the bar for hardware dependency is slightly lower than "perfect" and somewhere around "not completely crap".