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2 years agoFirst, why is every post on this forum -1? Somebody must be holding a grudge.
Second: it doesn’t matter. ECC just prevents bit flips in RAM, once data leaves a system it’s irrelevant whether it had ECC or not.
I’ve been running servers of various kinds for decades. There is a difference between running servers on hardware with ECC vs none, but it’s not a big deal. Unless you’re running, like, banking software or something where accuracy or uptime is critical…I wouldn’t sweat it. You may just have to reboot cuz of a kernel panic once or twice a year.
You can label your devices. When formatting, do
mkfs.ext4 -l my-descriptive-name /dev/whatever. Now, refer to it exclusively by/dev/disk/by-label/my-descriptive-name. Much harder to mix uphomeandswapthansdc2andsdc3(or, for that matter, two UUIDs).