On 17-Apr-09, at 11:49 AM, Frank Middleton wrote:
... One might argue that a machine this flaky should be retired, but it is actually working quite well,
If it has bad memory, you won't get much useful work done on it until the memory is replaced - unless you want to risk your data with random failues, and potentially waste large amounts of time.
You should do a comprehensive memory test ASAP and replace what's not working.
ZFS' job isn't to test your memory, so I think the proposed patch is pointless. It also doesn't address the case where the application buffer is corrupt.
--T
and perhaps represents not even the extreme of bad hardware that ZFS might encounter. Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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