It's not recommended to use ZFS for a computer without ECC RAM. So, what's a good alternative then? Or is the risk the same, so it doesn't matter what manager I use, it'll be the same problem if a bit in RAM flips anyway?
I'm trying to determine if I should or should not use ZFS. If I shouldn't, is there anything that comes close that's safer with non-ECC RAM?
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The problem is zfs's error correction features (checksum & scrub) can potentially result in a total loss of data on a memory corruption error as opposed to say xfs which will happily write your error to disk in just the affected block(s).