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Heck, if someone's going whole-hog on file integrity, I'd really like them to support the creation of files that are stored "expanded" by a fountain-code.

Rather than having to RAID-mirror every block on my disk, I'd like to be able to pick just some files and say "please store those ones slightly more redundantly, such that they're protected from bit-level disk errors—they're important."




something like zfs copies=n? I used this on a drive with tons of bad sectors and it worked flawless - ZFS even spreads the writes throughout the disk. However AFAIK this is a property of using merkle hash trees (just add multiple leaves) and it's probably unlikely that Apple went this way.




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