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Ezra the Scribe vs. Hardware Failure
Episode 3782
Published 3 days, 8 hours ago
Description
A home server rebuild gone wrong sparks a surprising parallel: how Ezra the Scribe’s distributed scribe network solved a data preservation problem that modern RAID arrays still can’t handle. This episode examines the 2024 USENIX FAST findings on catastrophic multi-failure events, the hidden dangers of hardware redundancy, and what ancient text preservation teaches us about backup strategies we’re still getting wrong.