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0 pointscolechristensen8y ago0 comments

He makes valid points, but in defense of an original ridiculous statement that the articles suggestions are extremely dangerous. There are all sorts of benefits to an ACID database, it's just not reasonable to scream about the necessity of it because reboots are scary.

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sitkack8y ago

I agree.

But! Lots of applications aren't built to handle partial writes, which will absolutely occur if apps are hard killed. Any disucssion around this topic should reference Crash-only Software [0][1][2] and Micro Reboots [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/crash-only-softwa...

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/191059/

[3] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/...

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