diff --git a/include/libzfs.h b/include/libzfs.h
index 92c7bf6d1..4fc776122 100644
--- a/include/libzfs.h
+++ b/include/libzfs.h
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ typedef enum zfs_error {
 	EZFS_REBUILDING,	/* resilvering (sequential reconstrution) */
 	EZFS_VDEV_NOTSUP,	/* ops not supported for this type of vdev */
 	EZFS_NOT_USER_NAMESPACE,	/* a file is not a user namespace */
+	EZFS_CKSUM,		/* insufficient replicas */
 	EZFS_UNKNOWN
 } zfs_error_t;
 
diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
index cca86d2d7..3067e8d46 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ libzfs_error_description(libzfs_handle_t *hdl)
 		return (dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN, "I/O error"));
 	case EZFS_INTR:
 		return (dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN, "signal received"));
+	case EZFS_CKSUM:
+		return (dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN, "insufficient replicas"));
 	case EZFS_ISSPARE:
 		return (dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN, "device is reserved as a hot "
 		    "spare"));
@@ -396,6 +398,10 @@ zfs_common_error(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, int error, const char *fmt,
 	case EINTR:
 		zfs_verror(hdl, EZFS_INTR, fmt, ap);
 		return (-1);
+
+	case ECKSUM:
+		zfs_verror(hdl, EZFS_CKSUM, fmt, ap);
+		return (-1);
 	}
 
 	return (0);