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Re:Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor by sp332 on Saturday August 30, 2014 @01:04AM (#8245711)
That's it, I'm running my RAM in a ZFS pool from now on! Now I just need 128GB of RAM to run ZFS... /s
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Re:Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor by drewg123 on Saturday August 30, 2014 @12:42PM (#8246861)
You joke, but running ZFS on disk w/o ECC RAM is not a good idea. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zfs-macos/qguq6LCf1Q...
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Re:Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor by sp332 on Saturday August 30, 2014 @02:32PM (#8247165)
I've heard this from several sources, but is it worse than any other FS? I mean it seems obvious that data corrupted in RAM will be corrupted when you write it to disk. I think people are worried about software RAID vs hardware RAID, since all hardware RAID platforms have ECC cache and software RAID should too.
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Re:Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor by j00lz on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:10AM (#8248751)
It is worse as ram corruption can cause a loss of the entire zfs pool. there are no zfs recovery tools available, so data recovery can be next to impossible or very expensive.
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