ZFS Integrity
ZFS is built from the ground up to protect your data against corruption. We at LANified! IT Services trust all our important data with ZFS, and we stand behind it when implementing storage systems for our clients.
In addition to the data itself, ZFS stores a "Merkle Tree" of checksum information about the same data. The tree of checksums is used to rapidly identify if any data is incorrect when compared to what is expected. This comparisson happens as you read or write data, and is completely automatic. Should data be found to be incorrect or corrupt, ZFS automatically replaces the bad data with a known-good copy of the same data, stored elsewhere on the storage system. This whole process occurs as you interact with your data and has a zero cost to performance.
In addition to these automtic mechanisms, there is also a scrubbing mechanism that can be periodically performed. ZFS Scrubs check all the data on each pool for any consistency problems, and corrects them as it finds them.
ZFS guards against...
- Torn Writes
- Misdirected Writes
- Data Path Corruption
- Faulty Sectors
- Power Faults
- Bit Rot
- Parity Errors
ZFS is the most proven way to protect your data against corruption. It has been guarding petabytes of data worldwide since 2005, for inividuals, organisations, and businesses of any size. Our exhaustive research, peer review, industry review, and internal utilisation of ZFS speaks volumes. We at LANified! IT Services are completely confident that ZFS should be protecting any data you care about, as we use it for all the data we care about too.
LANified! IT Services builds extremely relible storage systems leveraging ZFS, for Calgary & International clients. Whether you are a residential, business or organisational client, we care about keeping your data accurate.