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Jody Bruchon
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Jody Bruchon's personal blog at jodybruchon.com covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “ZFS won't save you from bit rot”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2017 ZFS post, which questions ZFS's protection against bitrot, as a controversial read with interesting data on FreeBSD and RAID trade-offs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jody Bruchon: videos, software, filmmaking. Home of the jdupes duplicate file finder, Tritech Service System, and free advice on lots of technical and creative things.
Most-linked posts?
- ZFS won't save you from bit rot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-13
What Hacker News says?
A good, controversial read is available at [0]. I don't agree with his conclusions entirely, but the data he presents is interesting. And also paired with [1] to give space overhead and MTBF figures for various RAID configurations (where RAID-Z ~= RAID5, RAID-Z2 ~= RAID6) [0] https://www.jodybruchon.com/2017/03/07/zfs-wont-save-you-fan... [1] https://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/221
Comment linking /2017/03/07/zfs-wont-save-you-fancy-filesystem-fanatics-need-to-get-a-clue-about-bit-rot-and-raid-5/
on “Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux”Submitted 'jdupes', or how I unexpectedly became a better programmer (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've had a FreeNAS VM set up with a couple mirrored ZFS disks (PCI passthrough) for the past few years. It's worked fairly well, but overall it's a pain to always have make sure the VM is on, mount the NFS, etc. My original motivation was preventing bitrot, but I've since seen that rationale called into question[0]. Is there a current consensus on whether ZFS is worth the hassle? I've never used the snapshotting, th…
Comment linking /2017/03/07/zfs-wont-save-you-fancy-filesystem-fanatics-need-to-get-a-clue-about-bit-rot-and-raid-5/
on “An Introduction to ZFS”Submitted ZFS won't save you from bit rot as a story · 1 points
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