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It's not so much that ZFS needs ECC anymore than any other filesystem, but rather when you do have RAM errors, you are going to find out very quickly. Other fi
by wstrange 10y ago
It's not so much that ZFS needs ECC anymore than any other filesystem, but rather when you do have RAM errors, you are going to find out very quickly.
Other filesystems will happily let you write corrupt data blocks...
- erkkie 10y agoSee my other comment a bit up in the thread. ZFS does data checksumming which relies on the ram not lying to you.
- the_why_of_y 10y agoBut at least with ZFS checksums you have a statistical chance of detecting bad RAM because it will sometimes manifest as checksum errors, whereas with non-checksumming filesystems you just get silent data corruption.