What was the layout of the ZFS pools? I've been using RAIDZ1 and RAIDZ2 for years now on ubuntu, and luckily have not detected any errors on my monthly scrubs. I did have bitrot on older drives previously when I just relied on EXT4, only to find out when trying to access an old file.
I'm using a Supermicro board, with ECC RAM, but anywhere from 4 to 6 drives in the pool (upgraded over 6 or 7 years now).
To my knowledge ZFS indeed has a very very good track record, but Ubuntu did have an incorrect patch for it at a time, as I was enlightened by this comment in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31292568
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What was the layout of the ZFS pools? I've been using RAIDZ1 and RAIDZ2 for years now on ubuntu, and luckily have not detected any errors on my monthly scrubs. I did have bitrot on older drives previously when I just relied on EXT4, only to find out when trying to access an old file.
I'm using a Supermicro board, with ECC RAM, but anywhere from 4 to 6 drives in the pool (upgraded over 6 or 7 years now).
To my knowledge ZFS indeed has a very very good track record, but Ubuntu did have an incorrect patch for it at a time, as I was enlightened by this comment in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31292568
Perhaps ubuntu was the culprit, not ZFS?