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		johncolanduoni 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 It’s like using a non-cryptographically secure RNG: if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself, it’s unlikely you know enough to evaluate the impact of durability on your application.

traceroute66 6 days ago [–]

> if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself,

Yeah, it should use safe-defaults.

Then you can always go read the corners of the docs for the "go faster" mode.

Just like Postgres's infamous "non-durable settings" page... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/non-durability.html

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