There is an old paper http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/736/Papers/iron.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/736/Papers/iron.pdf that analyzes how

There is an old paper http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/736/Papers/iron.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/736/Papers/iron.pdf that analyzes how various filesystems do error handling and not too long ago it was fairly bad. My own experience was some of the older Windows would not even check if a write command failed. I used to laugh when developers would state how robust their databases were when the underlying filesystem does not even check for many errors. Hopefully things are better now.