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I'd think non-appending writes are quite rare in practice, other than databases. Even when the application is logically overwriting data, in other kinds of prog
by jsnell 3y ago
I'd think non-appending writes are quite rare in practice, other than databases. Even when the application is logically overwriting data, in other kinds of programs it's almost always implemented as writing to a new file + an atomic rename, not in-place modification.
- dontlaugh 3y agoEven databases tend to do sequential writes, whether to a WAL or LSM tree.