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Atomicity vs durabilityAtomicity vs durabilityPosted Apr 8, 2009 15:30 UTC (Wed) by pgoetz (subscriber, #4931)In reply to: Atomicity vs durability by bojan Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem
Who gives a flying fruitcake about what POSIX requires?! It's not acceptable for a user to edit, say her thesis, which she's been working on for 18 months and which has been saved thousands of times, and -- upon system crash -- find that not only did she lose her most recent 15 minutes worth of changes (acceptable) but in fact THE ENTIRE FILE. Putting the onus on application developers to fsync early and often is beyond ridiculous.
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