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If the corruption occurred on disk, yes. If it occurred in memory then it will write multiple incorrect copies to disk.
by ianhowson 10y ago
If the corruption occurred on disk, yes. If it occurred in memory then it will write multiple incorrect copies to disk.
- X86BSD 10y agoThis is why ECC is important. Many many people poo poo the idea that it's needed. But by not having it you have left a single vital part of the data path unprotected. And ram and disk is cheap, losing your data is not. The risk simply isn't worth it to save literally a few dollars.
- db48x 10y agoThat's no argument against ZFS, or backups, or any other form of redundancy. Only the insane would buy computers without ECC.