Post #2524480
2026-03-15 14:03 UTC
@evey@chaos.social
I think that's intuitive for storage, but the hot-at-write-time weakness may be a little different.
I'm imagining an array of cups and the drive controller is pouring water in them as the write operation. When the system is hot, the cups are jiggling and aiming the carafe is shaky. Not a lot of water gets in the intended cups, and some spills into the wrong cups. Enough goes in for the theshold of the immediate validity check, though.
@job@bsd.network @Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
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@swope@mstdn.plus 2026-03-15 14:03
Then even at normal temperature, slow evaporation over days means the amount of water in those cups drops below threshold in enough cups to break ECC margins -- corrupting the files. I don't have a deep enough understanding of the physics to tell you if that analogy has much validity. But this is my hunch. @job@bsd.network @Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social @evey@chaos.social