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> As long as other properties weren't violated (eg. ordering), your data should mostly be okay, aside from that 1s of data. That's the thing though—ordering is
by __david__ 5y ago
> As long as other properties weren't violated (eg. ordering), your data should mostly be okay, aside from that 1s of data.
That's the thing though—ordering isn't guaranteed as far as I remember. If you want ordering you do syncs/flushes, and if the drive isn't respecting those, then ordering is out of the window. That means FS corruption and such. Not good.
- gruez 5y agoThe tweet only mentioned data loss when you yanked the power cable. That doesn't say anything about whether the ordering is preserved. It's possible to have a drive that lies about data written to persistent storage, but still keeps the writes in order.