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Re:Working with Files Is Hard (2019) by lmm on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:00AM (#42811114)
Really? A 512-byte sector could get partially written? Did anyone actually observe this, or was it just a case of Intel CYA saying they didn't guarantee anything?
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Re:Working with Files Is Hard (2019) by yuboyt on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:14AM (#42811413)
Yes, really. "Crash-consistent data structures were proposed by enforcing cacheline-level failure-atomicity" see references in: https://doi.org/10.1145/3492321.3519556
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Re:Working with Files Is Hard (2019) by lmm on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:31PM (#42817564)
That reference appears to link to a DoI that doesn't actually exist.
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