Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Integrity

ZFS corruption related to snapshots post-2.0.x upgrade (github.com/openzfs)
Since upgrading to 2.0.x and enabling crypto, every week or so, I start to have issues with my zfs send/receive-based backups.

ZFS, Backup, Software, Data Integrity, Upgrade

5 points by transpute 12 hours ago | 0 comments

Things that go wrong with disk IO (eatonphil.com)
There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that read and write files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in place (versus copy-on-write for example).

Disk IO, Software Development, Data Integrity, Transactions

43 points by todsacerdoti 57 days ago | 1 comments

Comment on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts (pubpeer.com)

Science, Research, Data Integrity, Academic Publishing

159 points by picture 127 days ago | 81 comments

SQLite does not do checksums (avi.im)
SQLite does not do checksums by default. I learned this from Alex Miller. What does this mean? If there is disk corruption, the database or application won’t be able to know that the database is ‘corrupt’.

Databases, SQLite, Data Integrity

132 points by todsacerdoti 196 days ago | 98 comments