Re:Unix’s file durability problem
by illotum on Sunday April 17, 2016 @03:50AM
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I would guess because no promise is much better than a broken promise. No one wants to take blame.
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We have to accept that it wouldn't save the day in all scenarios. If there is a 60MB excel file to save on a slow network drive, the file will be lost. But this mechanism would still reduce file/disk/database corruptions by an order of magnitude.