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Re: file I/O: writ to disk in parallel?

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From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject	Re: file I/O: writ to disk in parallel?
Date	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:17:56 +0100
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lmike <lmike3000@gmail.com> writes:
> Say an application code calls fwrite/write etc. to write a very long
> string "aaa ... 123 ... ccc" to a disk file, is it ever possible
> that the app/box crashes in the middle of the write operation, then
> it leaves a garbage like "aaa ... @#$@#$ ... ccc" or "@#$%@#$
> ... 123 ... ccc" in the disk file?

Trivially, yes. Even the shortest actual write needs a finite amount
of time and 'something bad' could happen during this time.

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file I/O: writ to disk in parallel? lmike <lmike3000@gmail.com> - 2012-06-20 20:35 -0700
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