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		kqr 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can ru... The hard drives are either master or slave. A hard drive is not a master-and-slave.

VerifiedReports 5 days ago [–]

Exactly. And an entry in a key/value store is either a key or a value. Not both.

kqr 5 days ago | [–]

No, an entry is a key-and-value pair. Are you deriously suggesting it is possible to add only keys without corresponding values, or vice versa?

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