You need to use something like RAID1 setup with N drives using either
ZFS or btrfs. If you are on dragonfly bsd probably hammer does that
too. Also backup and scrub your disk array quite often...

Ah, just found out that zfs/btrfs is also cited by the article so you
already know that...

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bitrot -
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/
> - data in SSD or HD being corrupted by (say) nutrinos over time. See also a
> guy/gal lamenting their corrupted photo collection -
> https://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/
>
> Anyway, will two fossil installs replicating each other do anything with
> merkle trees to heal such bitrot silently and in the background?
>
> - Paul
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