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1. Comment - Oracle contributes Linux code for detecting 'silent data corruption'

   (Dec 3, 2008 - 3:38 AM)

   IMHO this is a major step forward. As storage systems get ever bigger and transistor counts move exponentially up, rare even information corruption is bound to increase. Wire noise has finite density at any finite voltage and then one can include things like cosmic ray impacts etc.
   
   Whilst it might not be the case that this code is entirely designed to cope with these rare events, to conversion of mentality from assuming the machine is right, to double checking that it is right, as a necessary step forward.
   
   This is especially so as the world wants to use more and more commodity hardware in which hard wired checks are less common.
   
   - AJ
   
   nerds-central.blogspot.com