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- Loss of machine
- What does this mean? When we label a misbehaving machine as toast?
- Multiple machine types: client, master, backup (separate service colocated w/ master), coordinator
- Loss of rock rack
- Common failure scenario - must be able to handle gracefully
- Implies we need # of racks >= # of copies of replicated data for durability
- Network Partitions
- Should not lose sanity when these occur.
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