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Bit flips (for all reasons) occur in buses, registers, caches, etc. Anything that has state can have state changed incorrectly.
This is why filesystems like ZFS exist and storage formats have pervasive checksums.
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Bit flips (for all reasons) occur in buses, registers, caches, etc. Anything that has state can have state changed incorrectly.
This is why filesystems like ZFS exist and storage formats have pervasive checksums.