Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:26 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> You're not going to get zero data loss that way.

Ending the wait state does not cause data loss. It puts you at *risk* of
data loss, which is a different thing entirely.

If you want to avoid data loss you use N+k redundancy and get on with
life, rather than sitting around waiting.

Putting in a feature for people that choose k=0 seems wasteful to me,
since they knowingly put themselves at risk in the first place.

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