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Re:January 28th Incident Report by obituary_latte on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:00PM (#11030954)
Not sure how your comment refutes the contention of reliability. Seems to me to be more a condemnation of failures that do happen (which is of course worthy of concern, but irrelevant in a conversation about stability).
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Re:January 28th Incident Report by dice on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:34PM (#11031103)
I am using "reliability" in the sense of RAS[0]. An HA datastore which erroneously ACK's writes has lowered reliability, as there are known cases where it gives incorrect outputs.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability,_availability_and_...

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Re:January 28th Incident Report by obituary_latte on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @08:00PM (#11031221)
I see. Yeah, more concerning there being errors not based on an "event". Thanks for clarifying; sorry for any confusion.
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