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Re:Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup by WJW on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:55AM (#37819971)
This makes me think: is there some sort of kernel plugin that ECC-ifies existing memory in software? Similar to how you can implement RAID in software.

I even vaguely remember a kernel module (?) that transparently performed in-RAM compression so that you effectively used less memory at the cost of increased CPU usage. Can't find it anymore though.

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Re:Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup by smoldesu on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:00AM (#37820020)
> remember a kernel module (?) that transparently performed in-RAM compression

Zram? https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.html

It won't ECC your memory, but it can handle compression just fine.

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