> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Toby Thain > > The corruption will at least be detected by a scrub, even in cases where it > cannot be repaired.
Not necessarily. Let's suppose you have some bad memory, and no ECC. Your application does 1 + 1 = 3. Then your application writes the answer to a file. Without ECC, the corruption happened in memory and went undetected. Then the corruption was written to file, with a correct checksum. So in fact it's not filesystem corruption, and ZFS will correctly mark the filesystem as clean and free of checksum errors. In conclusion: Use ECC if you care about your data. Do backups if you care about your data. Don't be a cheapskate, or else, don't complain when you get bitten by lack of adequate data protection. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
