I miss the "Validate Install" button from the legacy UI.

[Samuel Tai]

This was a good way to check you had a good install or update, and could alert you your boot drive was going south. Will this be resurrected in 12?

 

[danb35]

could alert you your boot drive was going south

The fact that the system now (for the past five years or so) boots from a ZFS pool which is regularly scrubbed would seem to address this, wouldn't it?

 

[Samuel Tai]

No, scrubs wouldn't catch an initially corrupted install. What the validate button did was compare the installed files against their known hashes.

 

[danb35]

No, scrubs wouldn't catch an initially corrupted install.

...which wasn't what I said. I'd suspect that regular scrubs would, as I quoted, "alert you your boot drive was going south."

 

[seanm]

Checking install files against their know hashes could be nice was to know if an attacker replaced certain files...