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> All the data may be on the disk, but (last I checked) POSIX didn't require that filesystems not get completely corrupted in the event of a system crash. It d
by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> All the data may be on the disk, but (last I checked) POSIX didn't require that filesystems not get completely corrupted in the event of a system crash.
It does. It specifies how the filesystem should behave in a particular (non corrupted) way. There is no exception that this requirement is somehow voided if the system wasn't cleanly shutdown.