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What problem are you trying to solve with replicated storage?

A lot of times, finding a solution further up the stack or settling for backups ends up being more robust and reliable. Many folks have been burnt by all the fun failure scenarios of replicated filesystems.

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I build a platform which hosts a few thousand services and tens of thousands of nodes. Currently, those services need to each internally manage replicating data and need to be aware of failure domains (host, rack, data center).

What I would like to do is develop a system where applications just need to request replicated volumes which span a specific failure domain and push that logic down to the platform.

Rook would suit your problem space very well.

Thank you

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