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ZFS, used in OpenSolaris as well as Sun Solaris 10 has error correcting at the byte level. This allows it to avoid issues around silent corruption, ghost writes and other basic forms of data loss, unlike UFS, JFS (all variations), NTFS, HFS/HFS+ and most other common file systems in use today. If you want to protect your Windows Server environments from silent corruption (2 bits flipping in a byte because of crosstalk on the magnetic medium) you can run your existing servers in xVM on top of OpenSolaris on just about any Intel box and get the best of both worlds, Microsoft compatibility on top of a rock solid file system designed this century. Or, as Robin suggested once, you can take a look at Sun's 7000 series storage.
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