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Comment by ed25519FUUU

4 years ago

Would this affect filesystems like zfs? It seems a user space positive return syscall would mess all kinds of things up.

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davewritescode  4 years ago

At best ZFS could detect the failure but a file system can’t save you from drives lying about whether data is actually on the disk.

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