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Care to elaborate? ZFS warned me of that while I reading its installation guide. Which is why I never installed it.
by valarauca1 12y ago
Care to elaborate?
ZFS warned me of that while I reading its installation guide. Which is why I never installed it.
- sp332 12y agoIf you're doing RAID, you should have ECC. All hardware RAID controllers have ECC cache, and if you're doing software RAID, you should have ECC system RAM. But this is just common sense, I guess, since it's useless to write data to redundant storage if it's already been bit-flipped in RAM.
- ryao 12y agoI thought that I had replied to this, but I seem to have replied to its parent by mistake. Here is a link to the response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8438416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8438416 Would you provide a link to that guide? If there is a guide out there that says that you should use something other than ZFS when a system lacks ECC, I would like to know so that I can try to get it corrected. Not using ZFS because it cannot provide full protection without ECC is like not getting a flu shot because you can still get sick anyway. It is true, but opting to be even less safe in the name of safety is counterproductive.