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I don't understand why this is so often misunderstood. The parent poster already stated the opposite. ECC and ZFS are orthogonal. ECC ensures that data in you
by takeda 11y ago
I don't understand why this is so often misunderstood.
The parent poster already stated the opposite.
ECC and ZFS are orthogonal. ECC ensures that data in your RAM is not corrupted (or rather detects corruption) it helps whether you use ZFS, EXT4, NTFS etc.
ZFS increases your data safety whether you use ECC or not, but if you have to have maximum assurance that data is fine you should use ZFS and ECC.
- empthought 11y agoAs far as I can tell, the ECC/ZFS paranoia traces back to "cyberjock" on the FreeNAS forums. https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-ram-and-zfs.15449/ https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-...
- ryao 11y agoThis is correct. He considers ECC so important that he is willing to spread FUD about non-ECC behavior to try to scare people into using ECC. I think the truth is scary enough to convince people, but he does not agree.