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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 23, 2009 5:02 UTC (Mon) by dedekind (guest, #32521)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by welinder
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

It's not just awful, it is a silly.

$ man 2 write

...

"A successful return from write() does not make any guarantee that data has been committed to disk."


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