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Relevant quote from one of ZFS's primary designers, Matt Ahrens: “There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any
by radiowave 5y ago
Relevant quote from one of ZFS's primary designers, Matt Ahrens: “There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. ... I would simply say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS."
- tombert 5y agoYeah, I remember reading that a few years ago. If I were running a server farm or something, then yeah, I'd probably use ECC memory, but I think if you're running a home server, then the argument that ZFS necessitates ECC more than Ext4 or Btrfs or XFS or whatever doesn't really seem to be accurate.
- oarsinsync 5y ago> the argument that ZFS necessitates ECC more than Ext4 or Btrfs or XFS or whatever doesn't really seem to be accurate Agreed. > If I were running a server farm or something, then yeah, I'd probably use ECC memory, but I think if you're running a home server Then you should still use ECC RAM, regardless of what filesystem you're using. No, really. ECC matters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322) generally.
- tombert 5y agoFair enough, though AFAIK none of the SBC systems out there have ECC, and I generally use SBCs due to the low power consumption.