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Re:When etcd crashes, check your disks first by weiliddat on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:00PM (#47108016)
How would you get into an inconsistent state based on an fsync change?

Edit: I meant what sequence of events would cause etcd to go into an inconsistent state when fsync is working this way

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Re:When etcd crashes, check your disks first by _ananos_ on Sunday February 22, 2026 @03:07AM (#47109255)
data corruption, since fsync on the host is essentially a noop. The VM fs thinks data is persistent on disk, but it’s not - the pod running on the VM thinks the same …
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