[kwlug-disc] Synology, and proprietary disk formats ...

[unsolicited]

Does btrfs' checksumming ability bring anything to a non-ECC party?

As to the posters comment in the link of 'Shame on you for suggesting 
software raid.' ... guess even I.T. keeps building better idiots.

On 14-08-05 08:52 PM, L.D. Paniak wrote:
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> On 08/05/2014 07:29 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
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>> But what caught my eye is this comment about the disk formats being
>> proprietary and unreadable on a Linux system
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>> http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=3232&cid=77644
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>> Hostage but for another reason ...
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>> Posting this for those who use Synology in this group ...
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> Thanks for the important PSA!  Be sure to expand the comments for bonus
> mention of the importance of ECC memory in software-RAID systems that
> checksum data written to disk (eg ZFS).
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