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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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