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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle logging? by mandeepj on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:15PM (#20825442)
> network to be down than for your disk to fail

If network is down then how your users are going to reach your app?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle logging? by GauntletWizard on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:18PM (#20825459)
Netsplits happen. User actions can be queued on a server that has just lost connectivity. Your logging server can be down or broken itself. A file on a unix system isn't going anywhere fast.
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