ZFS...

[Karl Denninger]

On 4/30/2019 19:14, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>
> Michelle Sullivan
> http://www.mhix.org/
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 01 May 2019, at 01:15, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> IMHO non-ECC memory systems are ok for personal desktop and laptop
>> machines where loss of stored data requiring a restore is acceptable
>> (assuming you have a reasonable backup paradigm for same) but not for
>> servers and *especially* not for ZFS storage.  I don't like the price of
>> ECC memory and I really don't like Intel's practices when it comes to
>> only enabling ECC RAM on their "server" class line of CPUs either but it
>> is what it is.  Pay up for the machines where it matters.
> And the irony is the FreeBSD policy to default to zfs on new installs using the complete drive.. even when there is only one disk available and regardless of the cpu or ram class...  with one usb stick I have around here it attempted to use zfs on one of my laptops.
>
> Damned if you do, damned if you don’t comes to mind.
>
Nope.  I'd much rather *know* the data is corrupt and be forced to
restore from backups than to have SILENT corruption occur and perhaps
screw me 10 years down the road when the odds are my backups have
long-since been recycled.
-- 
Karl Denninger
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