ECC: RE: ext3 blah blah blah ...

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:

even if one uses ecc... ecc can only fix certain errors,
and non-correctable errors are flagged and not fixed
( burst errors are hard to fix )

and people that use ecc memory ... usually have higher-end motherboards
and more memory in the system vs the $50 motherboard+cpu combo (disasters)
from fries ( a local pc store )

One thing thats been irritating me for a long time is that it's all very
well using (and paying for!) ECC memory, but there are parts of the system
that don't have ECC or parity - eg. the PCI bus, processor bus and
internal paths, and so on...

But where do you draw the line?

Gordon