Re: state of ZFS and btrfs

Richard Archer <rha@juggernaut.com.au> wrote:

With ZFS able to parity-check data on disk for consistency and detect/repair bit errors, is it necessary to use ECC memory for a dedicated ZFS file store?

That depends on whether you're concerned about detecting bit errors that occur while preparing and writing the data in the first place, rather than only about bit errors in data read back from the file system.