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Re:US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traff... by superxpro12 on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:31PM (#50397187)
they did... it was just singly redundant. they would need double redundancy here. so 3 connections, not 2
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Re:US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traff... by alt227 on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:50PM (#50397445)
Taking one connection out for maintenance and leaving only 1 live connection is not redundancy, it is a failed backup.

Redundancy is always having more than one live connection.

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