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For the vast majority of applications a rare event of data loss is no big deal and even expected.


I think you're still not getting my point. Yes, a rare event of data loss may not be a big deal. What is a big deal is being able to reason about how rare that event is. When you have durable raft you can reason by using straightforward MTBF calculations. When you don't, you can keep adding nodes but you can't use MTBF anymore because a single failure is actually sufficient to cause data loss.




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