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Re:FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns by thwayunion on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:18PM (#33566246)
> If data in your tree is important, you want to replicate it, right?

Yes!

> You didn't implement it because it takes considerable effort.

I'd wager it's because he was smart enough to read the man page for rsync and didn't over-engineer a non-solution to a non-problem in his particular use-case.

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Re:FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns by killerstorm on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:52PM (#33568387)
Data integrity & availability generally considered to be important. So e.g. many databases implement synchronous replications, and Turing Award winning scientists Liskov and Lamport developed Byzantine Fault Tolerance solutions. I guess they were just too lazy to read the man page for rsync...
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Re:FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns by hinkley on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:55PM (#33569802)
Something like that. The point was accuracy, not throughput.
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