I've been running ECC in the Windows box for years, it seems like a 'no brainer' for servers. Servers usually run for years, and Stuff Happens over the years [1].
Most of the computing industry has been hell-bent on performance, yielding impressive gains (albeit with occasional setbacks: https://cachewarpattack.com/ ) But I'd prefer a reliable, unhackable, trustable compute fabric. ECC is part of the 'reliable' part. I would also like to see per /dev entry ACLs. I would like to see better security than owner-group-everbody permissions. I would like to see almost no normal system operations requiring root privs - and I would like to see root privs made much more narrow and fine-grained in scope - only large enough to do the specific job (e.g. change file permission, with a separate capability to change file ownership; etc). I'm certainly no computer security guru, or have any valid opinions except as a luser. Still --- I would like to see some performance gains "wasted" in order to gain better reliable, unhackable, trustable systems. Thanks for tolerating my mini-soapbox. -Mike [1] I recently had a NetBSD server's computer start to have random crashes until I tried to boot it one more time, and it wouldn't come up at all. Then after cleaning everything, making sure disks were OK, and trying again with no luck did I stare at the MB and saw the electrolytic caps' tops bulging out! My rule: Never trust HW completely. It will fail. Eventually. On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 7:09 AM Hauke Fath (SPG) <h...@spg.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > On 2024-02-16 01:14, Michael van Elst wrote: > > We should have EDAC drivers that should at least report events, > > but so far there is nothing... > > Sounds like a SoC project? > > Cheerio, > Hauke > > > (FreeBSD appears to be no better off: > < > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-find-out-if-ecc-is-enabled.72839/ > >) > > -- > The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath > () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik > /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt > Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344 >
