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Atomicity vs durability

Atomicity vs durability

Posted Mar 16, 2009 11:00 UTC (Mon) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: Atomicity vs durability by dlang
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Any reasonable hard disk (SATA, SCSI) has write barriers which allow file system implementers to actually implement atomicy.


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