29 Mar
2017
29 Mar
'17
4:44 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Lee Clagett via Boost
Read this [paper on crash-consistent applications][0] ... [0]https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-pillai.pd...
This is quite helpful, thank you! I think this paragraph is relevant to my use-case? "Current file systems do not provide atomic multi-block appends; appends can be broken down into multiple operations. However, most file systems seemingly guarantee that some prefix of the data written (e.g., the first 10 blocks of a larger append) will be appended atomically" It sounds to me like I have this case covered with the "partial write" failure mode of fail_file. Or is there another case I missed?