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dirty-pages
- May 19, 2026 What write() Actually Does Before Data Leaves the Process How a buffered write lands in the page cache as dirty pages, when the kernel begins writing them back, and why the call returning does not mean the bytes are on the device. performance engineering
- Jan 20, 2026 The Page Cache and the Writeback Path Where a written byte actually lives before it reaches the device, how dirty pages are tracked and flushed, and why write() returning does not mean the data is on disk. filesystems