There are many different ways that storage can be layered, and depending on your use case, you can put various advanced features (snapshots, checksum/data integrity, encryption, etc.) functionality in different places in the storage stack. You can put functionality the block device layer (e.g., lvm, dm-thin, dm-verity), you can put functionality into the file system, you can put functionality into the cluster filesystem (if you have such a thing), or you can put iti in the application level.
Depending on the requirements of your use case different choices will make more sense. It's important to remember that RHEL is used for enterprise customers, and what might be common in the enterprise world might not be common for yours, and vice versa. Certainly, if you are using a cluster file system, it makes no sense to do checksum protections at the disk file system level, because you will be using some kind of erasure coding (e.g., Reed Solomon error correcting codes) to protect against node failure. This will also take care of bit flips.
If you are using cloud VM's, or if you are using Docker / Kubernetes, then LXC won't make sense. It all depends on your technology choices, and so it's important to look at the big picture, not just at the individual file system's features.
Given a stock (or additional packages?) RHEL 7.4 install on non-clustered storage, what would be the best combination to detect & correct bitrot at the filesystem and lower level?
Depending on the requirements of your use case different choices will make more sense. It's important to remember that RHEL is used for enterprise customers, and what might be common in the enterprise world might not be common for yours, and vice versa. Certainly, if you are using a cluster file system, it makes no sense to do checksum protections at the disk file system level, because you will be using some kind of erasure coding (e.g., Reed Solomon error correcting codes) to protect against node failure. This will also take care of bit flips.
If you are using cloud VM's, or if you are using Docker / Kubernetes, then LXC won't make sense. It all depends on your technology choices, and so it's important to look at the big picture, not just at the individual file system's features.