At Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:48:37 +0200,
Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> As a first measure for single disk installations you can set
> the zfs property 'copies' to a value>1. Of course, this will
> cost space.

Of course.  But using FEC, we might only lose 20% of the space instead
of 50% of the space (as when using copies=2).  That's quite a
difference, I think.

> Of course, full FEC coverage of the checksums would be a
> GOOD thing, probably a 2 bit detection/1 bit correction scheme
> to save overhead. There are too many non-ECC installations ,
> esp. the low cost FreeNAS installations and home PCs which can
> be severely harmed by memory errors.

Yes, this is what I had in mind.

Thanks,

:) Neal
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