Some people came up with the idea of "crash-only software", arguing that it's better to maintain one code path (recovering from a crash) than two (clean start and recovery), but it hasn't caught on that much. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...
Re:Five Years of Btrfs
by paulddraper on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:55PM
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Google follows this, I believe
In fact the opposite, make sure to use an UPS just so that you can shutdown cleanly in the unfortunate event.
For example: https://blogs.oracle.com/paulie/backing-up-mysql-using-zfs-s...