On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 01:07:02 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I don't think anything is immune to failure.  Another fun case is a
>> randomly-bad memory bit causing different things to be written to
>> software raid mirrors.  I had one that took 3+ days of running
>> memtest86 to catch.
>
> ECC RAM?

The server said it was one-bit-correcting or something like that.  I
thought it was supposed to stop if it had errors it couldn't correct.
I swapped the whole set out at once without digging much more into the
details.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikes...@gmail.com
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