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cache-flush
- Sep 13, 2024 Cache Flushes and FUA: The Two Ordering Primitives Below the Filesystem How a flush drains a volatile device cache, how forced unit access bypasses it for a single write, and why both are required to build a write barrier out of a queue that reorders. memory systems
- Jul 12, 2024 Cache Flush, FUA, and What a Write Completion Means How a device with a volatile write cache reorders writes, what a flush and a force-unit-access write each promise, and why the barrier is only as good as the drive. filesystems