drawbacks of non-ECC RAM

2014-01-17 Thread valleysmail-l...@yahoo.de
I'd like to know if there are drawbacks in using btrfs with non-ECC RAM instead of using ext4 with non-ECC RAM. I know that some features of btrfs may rely on ECC RAM but is the chance of data corruption or even a damaged filesystem higher than when i use ext4 instead of btrfs? I want to know

Re: drawbacks of non-ECC RAM

2014-01-17 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
ECC RAM, and BTRFS's error recovery is entirely independent of whether the system RAM is ECC or not. The aren't really any BTRFS specific drawbacks to using non-ECC ram. If you're really that paranoid about data corruption, you really should be using both ECC RAM and a RAID setup. Unless your

Re: drawbacks of non-ECC RAM

2014-01-17 Thread Duncan
valleysmail-l...@yahoo.de posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:33:35 + as excerpted: I'd like to know if there are drawbacks in using btrfs with non-ECC RAM instead of using ext4 with non-ECC RAM. I know that some features of btrfs may rely on ECC RAM Crossed signals somewhere, as that's

Re: drawbacks of non-ECC RAM

2014-01-17 Thread Justus Seifert
On 18.01.2014 00:18, Duncan wrote: valleysmail-l...@yahoo.de posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:33:35 + as excerpted: I'd like to know if there are drawbacks in using btrfs with non-ECC RAM instead of using ext4 with non-ECC RAM. I know that some features of btrfs may rely on ECC RAM

Re: drawbacks of non-ECC RAM

2014-01-17 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:33 AM, valleysmail-l...@yahoo.de valleysmail-l...@yahoo.de wrote: I'd like to know if there are drawbacks in using btrfs with non-ECC RAM instead of using ext4 with non-ECC RAM. Non-ECC RAM can cause problems no matter what fs you use. I know that some features