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		lmm 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Working with Files Is Hard (2019) 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?

yuboyt 12 months ago [–]

Yes, really. "Crash-consistent data structures were proposed by enforcing cacheline-level failure-atomicity" see references in: https://doi.org/10.1145/3492321.3519556

lmm 12 months ago | [–]

That reference appears to link to a DoI that doesn't actually exist.

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