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by acdha 1340 days ago
That is bitrot: you save correct data and it’s not retrievable. The fact that it happens in RAM rather than on the storage media, controller, or I/O channel just makes it a different category.
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It is also far, far more likely that an uncorrected bit flip happens outside the relatively small portion of time the kernel spends in filesystem code. This is not a ZFS-specific problem by any means.