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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast