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Re:How FoundationDB works and why it works by mst on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:51AM (#37555433)
FoundationDB's testing turns the rigorous up to 11 and I'm unaware of anybody else who's published a description of a testing approach that goes to quite the same extremes.

If that's just because I haven't noticed the others, I'd love to hear about them for comparison.

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Re:How FoundationDB works and why it works by jeffbee on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:52AM (#37556116)
I found a dataloss bug in the first hour of testing FDB. I think their testing hype is a bit overhyped.

I also find it somewhat irritating that they won't take fixes or reports of problems with the storage engine because "we fixed this in redwood" when redwood is completely theoretical.

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Re:How FoundationDB works and why it works by endisneigh on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:05AM (#37556284)
You've been able to use redwood since FDB 7.1 via ssd-redwood-1-experimental. Hardly theoretical.

Curious about that data loss bug. do you have a link? most bugs I've seen have to due with latency spikes and cluster unavailability. haven't seen any around data loss after transaction has committed.

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