Is it safe for data integrity to use a “non ECC mini pc” that runs docker containers from the volumes of a “NAS with ECC ram”?

Or does the mini pc also require ECC ram for the data integrity?

Sorry if it is a noob question.

  • poVoqEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    While ECC memory is nice to have, potential data integrity issues can be mitigated against by using a file system with sufficient redundancy and checksum error correction like zfs or btrfs.

    Just run a regular scrub for errors to be auto-corrected from the extra copies.

    • @chripedeEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      If you were to use ZFS you really should consider ECC. Filesystem checksumming doesn’t do you any good if it’s calculated wrong because of mem error.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      That would be the plan, the NAS with ECC would run zfs with weekly scrubs (4 to 6 drives)

      Edit: now running ECC on devices with critical data or databases