[agallego]

Right. But that line of thinking gets you to a place where one is like “how does anything work” haha.

In general this was a response to Confluent attempting to dismiss fsync() as a neat trick rather than an actual safety problem and why when we benchmarked we showcase the numbers we did.

[comet-engine]

Which numbers? The ones on the blog that shows Redpanda significantly lagging behind open source Kafka?

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/15/kafka-vs-redpanda...

[agallego]

this is a burner account created at the time this post was up.