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johncolanduonilast Monday at 9:33 PM1 replyview on HN

It’s like using a non-cryptographically secure RNG: if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself, it’s unlikely you know enough to evaluate the impact of durability on your application.


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traceroute66last Monday at 10:59 PM

> if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself,

Yeah, it should use safe-defaults.

Then you can always go read the corners of the docs for the "go faster" mode.

Just like Postgres's infamous "non-durable settings" page... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/non-durability.html