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RealityVoidlast Saturday at 8:56 PM1 replyview on HN

> I just disagree that multi-module consensus is a reliable form of EDAC.

I wonder why you disagree about this? The only reason I can thing of is: - same sw with same hw with same lifecycle would probably have the same issue. (vendor diversity would fix this) - The consensus building unit is still a possible single point of failure.

Any other reasons you might doubt it as a methodology? It seems to have worked pretty well for Airbus and the failure rate is pretty low, so... It obviously is functional.

Modern units I'm sure have ECC, AND redundace as well.


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skylurklast Saturday at 10:52 PM

Yes exactly, birds of a feather fail together... an A380 has three primary flight control computers, but still carries another entirely dissimilar set of three flight control computers as backup.

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