Lexicon

Single-Disk Point of Failure

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:single-disk-point-of-failure

Canonical: Lexicon

Storing data on a single disk with no redundancy, so that one disk's failure loses everything.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Parity-Based Recovery and before Write Amplification.

Category

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Negated by

  • RAID Redundancy

Violates

  • RAID Redundancy

Linked from

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety