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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:38:10 -0600 (CST)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reading a corrupted file on ZFS
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.20.2102131135130.20141@scrappy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <225e4da5-79ec-a57a-90e5-35989e6484d5@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Stefan Esser wrote:
>
> I have a number of older 2 TB drives and use 2 of them to store
> DVB transport stream data, for later processing. They are not
> mirrored and the data format assumes that the transmission is not
> perfect. I have noticed that some of these files have been lost
> due to bad sectors, and while this would not be a problem on UFS,
> ZFS thinks I should not trust the file at all, despite 99,9999%
> of it being perfectly usable. (A fraction of the TS data is
> extracted from these files and stored as PS data on a ZFS RAID,
> where it will be safe and I never lost a file.)

If simple bad sectors is a problem for you on zfs, then try setting 
the the filesystem 'copies' property to a value higher than one before 
writing the file.  This does use more space but does not require 
additional devices.

Bob
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