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ZFS error scrub

A ZFS error scrub is an integrity scan restricted to files already recorded with data errors.

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OpenZFS 2.3 exposes this mode as zpool scrub -e and requires a prior scrub with head_errlog enabled. [1] It does not advance last_scrubbed_txg. [2]

Relations

related
data-scrubbing, checksum, resilver, zfs-transaction-group

Limitations

Citations

  1. OpenZFS 2.3: zpool-scrub(8), error-scrub scope and prerequisites (accessed 2026-10-16)
  2. OpenZFS 2.3: zpoolprops(7), last_scrubbed_txg (accessed 2026-10-16)

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