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A comment on Working with Files Is Hard (2019). Parent comment

Re:Working with Files Is Hard (2019) by BobbyTables2 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:46PM (#42809513)
Surely this can’t always be true?

What happens when a lot of data is written and exceeds the dirty threshold?

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Re:Working with Files Is Hard (2019) by Joker_vD on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:25PM (#42810189)
It gets written on the disk but into different inodes, I imagine.
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