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fsync
- Jul 14, 2026 Crash-Consistent and Application-Consistent Backups What a point-in-time image really contains, why journal replay only repairs the filesystem, and how to quiesce a running service without stopping it. devops
- Jul 7, 2026 What fsync Guarantees and What It Costs on Real Devices The ordering and durability contracts of fsync, fdatasync, and sync_file_range, how a device cache flush turns them into round trips, and where the guarantee quietly ends. performance engineering
- Jun 30, 2026 Durable Append: Group Commit, Torn Tails, and Recovery What fsync actually orders, why a log file needs a per-record checksum, and how batching many appends into one flush changes the latency of every record. observability
- 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
- Jan 8, 2026 What fsync Actually Waits For, and Why the Directory Counts The difference between fsync, fdatasync, and syncfs, why a durable file can still vanish after a crash, and what rename-based update protocols must flush to be correct. memory systems
- Nov 14, 2025 Durability Barriers, Flushes, and What fsync Actually Waits For The storage-stack path a flush traverses, why a drive cache that ignores it voids every journal guarantee, and what a directory fsync must order. filesystems
- Sep 26, 2025 Fsync Cost and Journal Modes on Flash Storage What a flush request actually guarantees on a phone, how SQLite synchronous levels trade durability for write latency, and why the barrier between the journal and the database file is the one that matters. mobile computing
- Jul 16, 2025 fsync, fdatasync, and What Survives a Power Loss The durability calls promise different things about data and metadata, and a file entry needs a second call on its directory; where the guarantees stop on each filesystem. filesystems
- Dec 15, 2024 Write-Ahead Logging and Crash Recovery in Search How a search index survives a crash without losing recently added documents, by logging mutations to a sequential write-ahead log and replaying it after restart. information retrieval
- Nov 27, 2024 Atomic File Replacement: rename, fsync, and the Directory Entry Why a save operation that overwrites in place is not crash-safe, what the rename trick guarantees, and which flushes must bracket it for the guarantee to hold. mobile computing
- Jun 9, 2023 fsync, fdatasync, and Where the Durability Boundary Actually Sits What the kernel guarantees when a write returns, which metadata fdatasync skips, why direct I/O does not remove the need for a flush, and how double buffering wastes memory. databases