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jolmg on Aug 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle ...

IPv4 on its own is not reliable, but TCP adds reliability on top of it. Aren't distributed systems in general also designed to be reliable despite being composed of unreliable components?

zzzcpan on Aug 7, 2019 [–]

Yes, fault tolerance is the reason distributed systems field even exists. Literally to make something reliable out of unreliable.

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