Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by solarengineer 2774 days ago
While it is indeed false that one needs ECC RAM to use ZFS, ECC by itself helps keep the data is memory safe.

I used to use non-ECC memory on my laptop when running Belenix, and I now use ECC memory on my servers at Hetzner where I run my own Illumos builds.

(I'm one of the maintainers of Belenix, an early opensolaris based distro that was the foundation of Solaris 11. I'm working on reviving it again)