On 2 Mar 2014, at 09:16, Philip Robar wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Jason Belec
> wrote:
>> RAM/ECC RAM is like consumer drives vs pro drives in your system, recent
>> long term studies have shown you don't get much more for the extra money.
>>
> Do you have references to these st
I'm still working, doing code. Plenty people helping. I want to get a
ReleaseCandidate installer out this week. Plenty distractions going around,
but I've persevered!
That aside, there should be a post going to devel list real soon for those
who would like to help try it.
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On Mar 2, 2014, at 2:33 AM, Bjoern Kahl wrote:
> On the other side you say (only) 8% of all DIMMs are affected per
> *year*. I *guess* (and might be wrong) that the majority of installed
> DIMMs nowadays are 2 GB DIMMs, so you need four of them to build
> 8 GB. Assuming equal distribution of bi
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Am 02.03.14 09:45, schrieb Philip Robar:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard
> wrote:
>
[ cut a lot not relevant to my comment ]
>> Bad RAM however has nothing to do with the occasional bit flip
>> that would be prevented using ECC
On Mar 2, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Philip Robar wrote:
> But if you insist: from "Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: ZFS File
> Systems", "Consider using ECC memory to protect against memory corruption.
> Silent memory corruption can potentially damage your data." [1]
That is in no way specific to
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Jason Belec wrote:
> Technically, what you qualify below is a truism under any hardware. ZFS is
> neither more or less susceptible to RAM failure as it has nothing to do
> with ZFS. Anything that gets written to the pool technically is sound. You
> have chosen a sin
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 28 February 2014 20:32, Philip Robar wrote:
>
> cyberjock is the biggest troll ever, not even the people actually
> involved with FreeNAS (iX system) knows what to do with him. He does
> spend an awful amount of time on the freenas fo
