FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

[M.Hirsch]

Nope,

I'd like my bank data to be stored on a system that does ECC, no question.
But please, on hard disk level (RAID; that is _permanent_), not in the 
RAM of a single node.

If memory gets corrupted, please, raise a kernel panic... Even if 
there's ECC in place.

Counter question:
Would you like your bank account data to be stored on a medium where one 
failure can be corrected, two can be detected, but three go unnoticed? 
How unlikely is that, if you've got some hardware that is really /broken/?

I know this is a rather random thing to happen.
Still, I think ECC memory is overrated. Better have it fail immediately. 
_With a kernel panic, please_

M.

Wilko Bulte schrieb:

>Balderdash.  
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>Following your rationale you want your bank account data
>silently be corrupted by hardware with bit errors?  Be my guest, give
>me ECC any day.
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>Proper hardware will log the ECC errors, a proper OS tailored to that
>hardware will log and notify the sysadmins.
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>That is how it should be done.
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>Wilko
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