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> If data in your tree is important, you want to replicate it, right? Yes! > You didn't implement it because it takes considerable effort. I'd wager it's bec
by thwayunion 4y ago
> If data in your tree is important, you want to replicate it, right?
Yes!
> You didn't implement it because it takes considerable effort.
I'd wager it's because he was smart enough to read the man page for rsync and didn't over-engineer a non-solution to a non-problem in his particular use-case.
- killerstorm 4y agoData integrity & availability generally considered to be important. So e.g. many databases implement synchronous replications, and Turing Award winning scientists Liskov and Lamport developed Byzantine Fault Tolerance solutions. I guess they were just too lazy to read the man page for rsync...
- hinkley 4y agoSomething like that. The point was accuracy, not throughput.