[vvatermelone]

They "lost everything" because they failed to set up even the most basic and critical maintenance functions built into ZFS. I don't think the responsibility in this incident could fall any more squarely on the shoulders of the people who set it up.

[toast0]

I think there's a case to be made that a NAS oriented OS/distro should probably default to having a scheduled scrub, not wait for you to set one up. I don't follow LTT, but a quick look around says he was using TruNAS for at least one of the builds?

You do need a notification feature as well, which is tricky because a distro can't assume you'll setup mail properly, but maybe something like make samba go read only when the zpool is degraded could work.

[wolrah]

They mentioned in their video about it how TrueNAS does do this correctly but they had manually set up this particular system on a normal distro.

[ksec]

It wouldn't have happened and they would have all the error report for months if they have it on by default. Which they somehow didn't.

It's funny thinking back now when LTT asked why MKBHD didn't ask for help when he wanted a DAS.