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Not sure if a myth, iirc it was literally in the ZFS manual last time I looked into ZFS (which to be fair was 10+ years ago).


The documentation author refuted it 9 years ago.[1] Probably your understanding or memory was incorrect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8438239


https://openzfs.org/wiki/System_Administration#Data_Integrit...

>Misinformation has been circulated on the FreeNAS forums that ZFS data integrity features are somehow worse than those of other filesystems when ECC RAM is not used. That has been thoroughly debunked. All software needs ECC RAM for reliable operation and ZFS is no different from any other filesystem in that regard




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