On 11/20/14, 8:24 AM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.11.20 07:21, T L wrote: >> Andrew - >> Thanks. My main box also has an AMD CPU, as it was the most cost effective way >> to get ECC RAM. Hmmm -- speaking of which, I'd be interested in your and >> Linda's thoughts on the necessity of ECC when using ZFS. > ZFS doesn't make a difference. ECC RAM is better than non-ECC RAM, and your > data will be messed up if your non-ECC RAM fails regardless. ZFS will usually > see that something is wrong and complain about it, even if it can't fix the > problem. I always try to make this distinction. Non-ecc is messing up data everyday, all the time.. At least with zfs you will know about it > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list