05-12-2016, 07:25 AM
(05-12-2016, 06:18 AM)rahlquist Wrote:(05-12-2016, 03:41 AM)tkaiser Wrote: To be honest: For valuable data you want to use filesystems that can ensure data integrity (btrfs or ZFS) and then you need also ECC RAM.I've never had data valuable enough to bother with either ZFS or ECC just good backcups.
Common misunderstanding. When bit rotting happens it not only corrupts your productive data but backups as well (most people never test their backups or do a verify -- but even that won't help since data is already corrupted so source and destination are identical since both damaged). Some background info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
And of course you're right. The average Pine64 backer doesn't care about this, suffers from bit rotting on a regular basis but either don't take notice (since common media file formats compensate bit flips on their own -- dropped frames in movies for example) or blames his PC or Windows installation when a few bit flips corrupted his whole file system and he has to install Windows from scratch.
