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That is bitrot: you save correct data and it’s not retrievable. The fact that it happens in RAM rather than on the storage media, controller, or I/O channel just makes it a different category.


It is also far, far more likely that an uncorrected bit flip happens outside the relatively small portion of time the kernel spends in filesystem code. This is not a ZFS-specific problem by any means.




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