On Jul 19, 2009, at 20:13, Gavin Maltby wrote:
No, ECC memory is a must too. ZFS checksumming verifies and corrects
data read back from a disk, but once it is read from disk it is
stashed
in memory for your application to use - without ECC you erode
confidence that
what you read from memory is correct.
Right, because once (say) Apple incorporates ZFS into Mac OS X they'll
also start shipping MacBooks and iMacs with ECC. If it's so necessary
we might as well have any kernel that has ZFS in it only allow 'zpool
create' to be run if the kernel detects ECC modules.
Come on.
It's a nice-to-have, but at some point we're getting into the tinfoil
hat-equivalent of data protection.
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