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[pyre]

> BTW, the box you put these drives into must have ECC RAM. Without it, expect corruption.

That's a rather strong statement to make.

[laymil → pyre]

It's a rather fair statement to make. The rates of errors in memory are significant[1], and ZFS does nothing to ensure that in memory data structures are uncorrupted; it was designed to be used with ECC RAM[2].

[1]http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf [2]http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html

[IgorPartola → pyre]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/dram-error-rates-nightmare...