[mustache_kimono]

I'm afraid you don't know what you're talking about. The Matt Ahrens quote in the article actually specifically debunks this claim:

"There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. If you use UFS, EXT, NTFS, btrfs, etc without ECC RAM, you are just as much at risk as if you used ZFS without ECC RAM. I would simply say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS."

[Xamayon]

I did not specifically mention ZFS anywhere in my comment, bad memory corrupting data being actively changed remains a problem for any filesystem. If the filesystem is actively changing data it can not rely on anything it is writing to disk being correct if the in memory buffers and other data structures are themselves corrupted.

[mustache_kimono]

> I did not specifically mention ZFS anywhere in my comment

Wow. If you weren't talking about ZFS in a comment under an article concerning ZFS, an article concerning the same issue you are parroting, an issue that supposedly effects ZFS, what filesystem were you talking about?

Let me guess, a hypothetical filesystem.

Sure, whatever.

> bad memory corrupting data being actively changed remains a problem for any filesystem. If the filesystem is actively changing data it can not rely on anything it is writing to disk being correct if the in memory buffers and other data structures are themselves corrupted.

And, yet, that's not the argument you just made. This is what makes me thinks this is a bad faith pivot to something, anything respectable. It's not like I'm going to forget that you said right above (it's still there!) that a scrub could destroy all your data. This claim has been repeatedly debunked. You may have been taken in. Fine. That happens. Just, now that you know, don't keep spreading this FUD.

[Xamayon]

I was thought I was replying to a general comment made about behaviors of filesystems in general and was attempting to clarify that. We obviously disagree about how safe and reliable certain things are, but that is fine.