I have seen at least one computer where memory errors were resulting in silent corruption of files. This going to be the new file server, but fortunately I noticed random seg faults occurring before deploying. Didn't get any kernel panics. In fact I already had Samba up and running, and it seemed fine. Didn't initially realize files were silently being corrupted until later on in the debugging process (from memory).

This was 2007.

From my email, sent internally. I can't remember why I was trying to compile ssh at the time, suspect I may not have noticed the problem otherwise. After this I convinced management to purchase a new computer for the file server.

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