21 Aug
2014
21 Aug
'14
11:17 p.m.
On 8/21/2014 4:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 8/21/2014 4:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Yes, but try a software RAID when you have intermittently bad RAM. I've been there. Mirrored disks that were almost, but not quite, mirrors.
try any file system when you've got flakey ram. data thats not quite what you wanted, oh boy.
which, btw, is why I insist on ECC for servers. and really prefer ZFS where each block of each part of a raid is checksummed and timestamped, so when scrub finds mismatching blocks, it can know which one is correct.
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