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by a1369209993 1988 days ago
> Have you thought about durability, though. That one's actually weirdly difficult to guarantee...

Strictly speaking, it's literally impossible to guarantee[0], so it's more a question of what kinds and degrees of problems are in- versus out-of-scope for being able to recover from.

0: What happens if I smash your hard drive with a hammer? Oh, you have multiple hard drives? That's fine, I have multiple hammers.

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What happened to the first hammer :D
I guess it wasn't Durable.