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by ficklepickle 2083 days ago
I've experienced errors that likely propagated through memory errors.

I have a ZFS/NFS server on a 2012 i7 with 4gb RAM. I use it primarily to store various torrents (up to ~250GB each).

I have had my torrent client find single-chunk errors in a couple of torrents I was seeding (twice over a few TB worth of torrents). I recall reading ZFS filesystem over NFS is particularly prone to this. I did some worried searching and remember finding it was likely caused by memory errors being persisted to disk, but I don't have any links handy anymore.

I likely would not have noticed the corruption if the torrent client hadn't alerted me.