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Re:Silent Data Corruption Is Real by blablabloe on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:59AM (#13858319)
When a double-parity error is detected, the operating system should halt. Maybe that didn't happen properly. Tripple parity errors may go undetected, but how likely is that.

I wonder what 'really' happened.

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Re:Silent Data Corruption Is Real by mrb on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:49AM (#13868506)
I saw dozens of ECC errors in the IPMI log, and dozens of MCAs in dmesg. So the memory was failing so badly that it is probably there were 3+ bit errors.
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