ZFS mirror storage and non-ECC RAM

[dmvillar]

I have read somewhere that it is not recommended to use zfs if you are not using ECC RAM. I honestly wouldn't want to have to throw away the advantages of zfs for not having ECC. What can you tell me about this? Is that so? Shouldn't I use ZFS?

 

[louie1961]

You'll be fine. I have three nodes, two without ecc memory. No issues

 

[dmvillar]

You'll be fine. I have three nodes, two without ecc memory. No issues

Thanks!

I also have 3 nodes (in production mode), none of them have ECC, and in pve 8.x I do not see the memtest start option that I did see in pve 7.x of memtest

I'm going to see if I can get a pendrive ready with memtest and every now and then I'll do a check (just in case)

 

[UdoB]

Shouldn't I use ZFS?

Use it!

ECC closes a gap of possible data corruption. Each and every filesystem has this chance to get data damaged in Ram and during transport from/to Ram.

ECC is a goodie on top, not a requirement. Of course it is recommended - for all systems, not just for ZFS...

 

[dmvillar]

Use it!

ECC closes a gap of possible data corruption. Each and every filesystem has this chance to get data damaged in Ram and during transport from/to Ram.

ECC is a goodie on top, not a requirement. Of course it is recommended - for all systems, not just for ZFS...

Excellent, I thought it would be like that, but I had a big doubt, really thank you