Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

·Hacker News··

Most of the time, the whole point of ZFS is that your data does not get corrupted. But during development you sometimes need the opposite: a controlled, reproducible corruption, so you can watch self-healing kick in, see what a scrub reports, or just understand how a file maps onto the physical disk. There is no better exercise than breaking one byte on purpose and seeing ZFS notice.

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