Ah thanks for the correction, it's not a Write Ahead Log at all, and they made the right choice in not overloading it to mean Write After or anything silly like

Ah thanks for the correction, it's not a Write Ahead Log at all, and they made the right choice in not overloading it to mean Write After or anything silly like that. That irk was over nothing. Given that being true then there is no way to run Redis without the spectre of data loss, period -- just a question of how much you are OK with possibly losing (which to be fair is probably fairly small with most healthy systems).