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You have missed the point. It is not that there cannot be multiple points of failure; it is that it takes just one point of failure to bring the entire system
by rramadass 5y ago
You have missed the point.
It is not that there cannot be multiple points of failure; it is that it takes just one point of failure to bring the entire system down. As long as there are dependant and moving parts failure will be inherent in the system; it cannot be "inspected/tested" away. Adding redundancy does not remove failure it merely transforms/postpones it. Failure is the "natural" state; we intuitively understand this through the concept of entropy always increasing (or more colloquially; "everything is going to shit") unless we do something about it i.e. expend energy and do work.