Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

[Joe Feise <jfeise@feise.com>]

Gregory Maxwell wrote on 03/28/06 13:22:

> On 3/28/06, Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> But for a production machine that is "producing" something of value, the
>> extra cost should not be an issue.  RAM errors are so subtle and so hard
>> to find that ECC is of far more value than RAID.  It is obvious when
>> your disk fails.
>>
>> An extra high bit in a credit transaction could cost you $16,384 and you
>> might not ever realize what happened. :)
>>
>> Anyway, off topic, but ECC is highly recommended.
> 
> And with the amount of memory that people are putting in modern system
> 1 bit events should be happening on a approx weekly basis.
> 
> ECC may be more expensive but it doesn't make memory more expensive
> than it was just a few years ago.... you really should have it.


I agree, and the system in question has ECC RAM.
The additional cost is not such a big issue anyway... I have SCSI disks (no
RAID, though) in there, and I could get at least 3 times the capacity for the
same price if I was using IDE...

-Joe