clock drift
the difference in rates at which clocks advance, causing clock skew to increase over time
clock drift in a sentence
“Clock drift caused timestamps to diverge across nodes by hundreds of milliseconds per day.”
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clock skew
the instantaneous difference between clocks on different processes; affects correctness of systems relying on wall clocks
latent sector error
a storage fault where disk sectors are damaged and the error is detected or reported on read
lost write
a storage system informs the layer above that a write occurred when it actually has not
torn write
a storage system stores only part of a requested write, leaving data in a partially updated state
memory corruption
data read from memory differs from what was written, caused by cosmic rays or hardware defects
message corruption
an arriving message differs from the sent message due to cable degradation or electromagnetic interference