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Re:Files Are Hard (2015) by Hackbraten on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:49PM (#21677422)
I was referring to the last section of the article, the part where it says rename isn’t atomic on crashes. Why not migrate traditionally via DDL in a transaction?
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Re:Files Are Hard (2015) by mehrdadn on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:11PM (#21677803)
It's not clear to me if they're correct about that. The way it's written, it seems to be saying "my read of the POSIX standard suggests rename may not be atomic on crashes", rather than "there are POSIX implementations in common use that have been observed to have non-atomic renames on crashes".
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