On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Robbie Crash wrote:
With ZFS checksumming, isn't the likelihood of data corruption due to flipped RAM bits small enough to offset the cost difference for /home/ use? ZFS was built to handle RAM errors, wasn't it?
No, it is not built to handle RAM errors. Once the data has been decoded, checked, and put in the zfs ARC (huge memory cache) then the data can be corrupted in RAM and nothing is likely to notice.
Likewise, data which is written may be corrupted if it is corrupted before the zfs checksums are computed.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
