>I'm not saying that ZFS should consider doing this - doing a validation >for in-memory data is non-trivially expensive in performance terms, and >there's only so much you can do and still expect your machine to >survive. I mean, I've used the old NonStop stuff, and yes, you can >shoot them with a .45 and it likely will still run, but wacking them >with a bazooka still is guarantied to make them, well, Non-NonStop.
If we scrub the memory anyway, why not include the check of the ZFS checksums which are already in memory? OTOH, zfs gets a lot of mileage out of cheap hardware and we know what the limitations are when you don't use ECC; the industry must start to require that all chipsets support ECC. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
