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"Consistency around CAP is similar to what you find in a typical ACID model - except that, now, we're in a distributed model."

I thought that consistency in ACID meant that data was always consistent with the rules of the database, whereas in CAP it means that the same data held in different locations is the same? Is that not right?

I ran into this yesterday, having tried to install yeoman into a folder shared between a windows host and a linux vm. Ended up with files which could not be deleted by any other way than from the windows command prompt using the 8.3 filenames.

An hour of swearing was enough to convince me to stop using windows for this entirely.