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Popular compressors like 7zip are some of the best tested software on the planet, because corruption is immediately detected. And we know hardware bugs are rea
by dist-epoch 3y ago
Popular compressors like 7zip are some of the best tested software on the planet, because corruption is immediately detected.
And we know hardware bugs are real, that's the whole point of rowhammer.
You might want to look at Facebook research:
> “Silent data corruptions are not limited to rare one in a million occurrences within a large-scale infrastructure. These errors are systemic and are not as well understood as the other failure modes like Machine Check Exceptions.” A large part of the responsibility should be shared by device makers, Facebook says.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-around-silent-data-corruption/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-...