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It's not only a case of file formats.. a few years ago one of the Linux kernel developers (Theodore Tso IIRC) made a post regarding drive behaviour under power
by hosay123 14y ago
It's not only a case of file formats.. a few years ago one of the Linux kernel developers (Theodore Tso IIRC) made a post regarding drive behaviour under power loss, and the results were pretty insane.
For example when a rotating drive fails, you might lose +/- 4kb around the previous sector under write, whereas with particular SSDs, he witnessed 1mb chunks zeroed out every Nmb across the entire drive. That kind of thing, you simply can't work around in software