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by kondro 2086 days ago
If you expect a 12 hour outage, you should probably spec for 12 hours.

Memory-based storage is expensive, but not ruinously so.

The reason why this needs to be in-memory (I'm guessing) is a combination of dedupe checks and efficient ordered logs in the on-disk journals.

Additionally, you can scale the memory retention policy up and down as you see fit. So if you notice a network outage, you can scale up the retention policy for the duration and then reduce it back down again after.

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>If you expect a 12 hour outage, you should probably spec for 12 hours.

Industrial facilities don't always expect their outages.

> Additionally, you can scale the memory retention policy up and down as you see fit. So if you notice a network outage, you can scale up the retention policy for the duration and then reduce it back down again after.

Better, though still a hassle to manage.