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		scott_s on July 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tarsnap outage post-mortem Point 7 is a new idea to me: "Post-accident attribution accident to a ‘root cause’ is fundamentally wrong."

jacques_chester on July 6, 2012 [–]

I disagree with that nostrum -- I wrote about it in nauseating detail here: http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/

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