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There is nothing special about using ZFS with/without ECC. You are getting the same benefits using any filesystem while running with ECC. Also the "myth" that
by weitzj 10y ago
There is nothing special about using ZFS with/without ECC.
You are getting the same benefits using any filesystem while running with ECC.
Also the "myth" that wrong checksum calculations due to a bitflip will degrade a ZFS filesystem even faster is not valid.
There are some articles/newsgroups around explaining this in much more detail.
So: Using ZFS on non ECC is not inherently unsafer than other filesystems on non ECC.
- iso-8859-1 10y agoAnd here is Matt Ahrens, a ZFS co-founder saying the same ("there's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem"): https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=26303271#p26303271 https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...