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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by matja on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:52AM (#38380847)
Actual file data ends up in the same transaction group (txg) as metadata if both are changed within the same txg commit (either flushed explicitly, due to recordsize/buffer limit being reached, or txg commit timeout - 5 seconds by default), so if there is a write barrier violation caused by hardware lies followed by an untimely loss of power, the checksums for the txg updates won't match and they get rolled-back until the last valid one when importing the pool - which doesn't end up zero'ing out extents of a file (like in xfs) or ending up with a zero file size (like on ext3/ext4).

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