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by nicolast 2703 days ago
> If you verify that your hardware is unstable, how can you expect the software not to fail and corrupt data?

No such thing as 'stable hardware' at scale.

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Ok, but then there's also no such thing as no corruption at scale.

If you accept imperfect hardware, you will get errors written to the drive. A single node of a database will get corruption by definition in that case. We're taking about RocksDB specifically here, so it is only one processing node.

How did you expect it to behave instead?

There is, just the error rate is different between a SAN backed openstack cluster vs AWS for example. EC2 is reliable compare to what hw just described above.