> >On 27-Jan-07, at 10:15 PM, Anantha N. Srirama wrote: > >> ... ZFS will not stop alpha particle induced memory corruption >> after data has been received by server and verified to be correct. >> Sadly I've been hit with that as well. > > >My brother points out that you can use a rad hardened CPU. ECC should >take care of the RAM. :-) > >I wonder when the former will become data centre best practice?
Alpha particles which "hit" CPUs must have their origin inside said CPU. (Alpha particles do not penentrate skin, paper, let alone system cases or CPU packagaging) Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
