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turmacar@lemmy.world 3 days agoThe second one.
Mirroring is good for speed and redundancy, but a storage mechanism with parity checks will all ways be more recoverable. And depending on the array you have far more storage available.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I think data checksums allow ZFS to tell which disk has the correct data when there’s a mismatch in a mirror, eliminating the need for 3-way mirror to deal with bit flips and such.