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You do realise that in your use cases you still need reliable filesystems both in the cloud and on devices.

Because any corruption at any point will get synced as a change, or worse can cause failure.

Not with any proper erasure coded distributed filesystem, you just trash and replace the entire drive and let ceph or whatever distributed storage solution you use rebalance the shards from other nodes. You don't need the filesystem to be reliable on a device level, you just need basic checksums for integrity checking and enough parity on the cluster level to replace bad drives.

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