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I said this in the previous thread and I'll say it here too: Rethink the Sync is an attempt to solve this problem from ten years ago. https://www.usenix.org/le

• jordonwii 11y ago
  That paper was the first thing I thought of when I read this, too. It really is a fascinating solution to this problem. Any ideas why external synchrony didn't catch on? I suppose one could argue that the implementation would add a decent amount of conceptual overhead to the kernel, for comparatively little reward (application authors can fsync now, etc.).
  • marvy 11y ago
    I wonder if the Linux folks are even aware of this paper. Maybe they're not?