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steerablesafe
on Feb 22, 2022
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How can you trust a disk to write data?
It might be atomic on the OS level (no processes can see an "intermediate" state), but it might not be atomic when you yank the power cord. POSIX in general doesn't offer any guarantees there, AFAIK.
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