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> the argument that ZFS necessitates ECC more than Ext4 or Btrfs or XFS or whatever doesn't really seem to be accurate

Agreed.

> If I were running a server farm or something, then yeah, I'd probably use ECC memory, but I think if you're running a home server

Then you should still use ECC RAM, regardless of what filesystem you're using.

No, really. ECC matters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322) generally.



Fair enough, though AFAIK none of the SBC systems out there have ECC, and I generally use SBCs due to the low power consumption.




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