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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2012 15:03:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC
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> > > venti doesn't have a "scrub" command, does it? zfs scrub was
> > > instrumental in warning me that I needed new disks.
> >
> > they're using coraid storage.  all this is taken care of for them
> > by the SR appliance.
>
> When are you going to sell these retail?!
>
> The question was for venti though.

i'm not sure i follow.  why can't venti assume a perfect array-of-bytes
device and let the appliance take care of it?

if you care enough to get ecc memory, your data path should be
100% ecc protected.

- erik