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Atomicity vs durabilityAtomicity vs durabilityPosted Mar 15, 2009 13:14 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: Atomicity vs durability by man_ls Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem
> The rename cannot be atomic if the name points to e.g. an empty file
As long as processes running on the system can see a consistent picture (and they can), according to POSIX it is.
> not only the filename must be valid but the contents of the file as well
From the point of view of any process running on the system, it is.
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