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Where the the correctness go?

Where the the correctness go?

Posted Mar 16, 2009 13:28 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (guest, #1159)
In reply to: Where the the correctness go? by dlang
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Of course, if the drive supports barriers in its command queueing implementation it should be possible to prevent it reordering those writes.

That is likely to restrict reorderings that won't break correctness guarantees though.


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