On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, David Magda wrote:
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.
The MacBooks and iMacs are only used as an execution environment for the Safari web browser. ECC is only necessary for computers which save data somewhere so the MacBook and iMac do not need ECC.
Regardless (in order to stay on topic) it is worth mentioning that the 10TB data lost to a failed pool was not lost due to lack of ECC. It was lost because VirtualBox intentionally broke the guest operating system.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
