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On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Jon Radel wrote:

> On 9/28/16 3:50 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:
>>
>>> are many online URLs with dire warnings about using ZFS & non-ECC RAM
>>> causing data corruption (this box is a commodity desktop w/ non-ECC
>>
>>> 1. Are these concerns valid, i.e. founded in fact ?
>>

Possibly not. They posting seems rather convincing that special concerns 
about zfs and ECC memory should be considered as "overwrought":

   http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/


dan feenberg