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Re:Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux by wstrange on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:12PM (#12132556)
It's not so much that ZFS needs ECC anymore than any other filesystem, but rather when you do have RAM errors, you are going to find out very quickly.

Other filesystems will happily let you write corrupt data blocks...

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Re:Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux by erkkie on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:09AM (#12135661)
See my other comment a bit up in the thread. ZFS does data checksumming which relies on the ram not lying to you.
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Re:Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux by the_why_of_y on Saturday July 23, 2016 @02:50PM (#12150542)
But at least with ZFS checksums you have a statistical chance of detecting bad RAM because it will sometimes manifest as checksum errors, whereas with non-checksumming filesystems you just get silent data corruption.
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