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moviuro on March 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: An administrator accidentally deleted the producti...

The people writing UNIX put all their brains into writing a stupid system.

Also, there are now CoW Filesystems that prevent data loss because of human error. Btrfs and ZFS are good examples.

gnur on March 23, 2016 [–]

But you really don't want to use those when working with databases, the performance loss is severe.

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