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We don't take bit flips seriously enough, practically every consumer device uses non ECC memory, very few folks use filesystems (e.g. ZFS) that can detect corru
by chunk_waffle 3y ago
We don't take bit flips seriously enough, practically every consumer device uses non ECC memory, very few folks use filesystems (e.g. ZFS) that can detect corrupt blocks. Even when using those things together it's still not perfect.
Everything is terrible.
- chunk_waffle 3y agoWhy the downvote? Is it really acceptable for the machine reading your passport at the airport to have bit flip? Or the person processing you at the DMV, the doctor reading your medical history, or a million other things that power the modern world?
- sigio 3y agoOn reads it's easy enough to do a re-read.... bit-flips when writing something are somewhat more critical, as this is non-repeatable.