On 01/16/12 11:08, David Magda wrote:
The conclusions are hardly unreasonable:
While the reliability mechanisms in ZFS are able to provide reasonable
robustness against disk corruptions, memory corruptions still remain a
serious problem to data integrity.
I've heard the same thing said ("use ECC!") on this list many times over
the years.
I believe the whole paragraph quoted from the USENIX paper above is
important:
While the reliability mechanisms in ZFS are able to
provide reasonable robustness against disk corruptions,
memory corruptions still remain a serious problem to
data integrity. Our results for memory corruptions in-
dicate cases where bad data is returned to the user, oper-
ations silently fail, and the whole system crashes. Our
probability analysis shows that one single bit flip has
small but non-negligible chances to cause failures such
as reading/writing corrupt data and system crashing.
The authors provide probability calculations in section 6.3
for single bit flips. ECC provides detection and correction
of single bit flips.
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