Simply having ECC enabled doesn’t mean that damaged files can be recovered. It appears promising, but needs careful real-world evaluation.
error correcting
We assume what we know to be impossible, and pretend that just making ‘safe’ copies of important documents will preserve them for the future.
Do you want ECC for your important documents? It’s available now, free, without the complications of ZFS or cost of RAID 6.
If macOS can’t do it, how should we check the integrity of important files? Use a checksum, or a hash function? And which?
We take for granted that our files remain uncorrupted, but know that isn’t always true. How can we fix or even detect such changes?
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