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I love ZFS too but that's not really relevant to this discussion because the deleted items were on a video hosting platform and the company did already have local copies.

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Yes and? Make a snapshot on live. Again, never touch data before snapshot.

This reminds of some IRC threads. You post a question and someone's answer assumes you are going to rip out and replace your existing prod setup just so you can use their pet tool.

Pff, there are thousands of system's and filesystems that are capable to make snapshots, even a shadow disk from VM370 (1982) could be seen as one.

At risk of sounding snarky, you do understand how video hosting platforms work? Customers, even enterprise ones, don’t have shell access let alone control over what file system is used.

There are a hundred ways this problem could have been prevented but ZFS isn’t one of them.

>you do understand how video hosting platforms work?

No, no i don't.

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