Tag
metadata-updates
- Sep 26, 2025 Soft Updates and Dependency Ordering Without a Journal How FFS-style filesystems enforce partial write orders that keep metadata repairable, why cycles in the dependency graph force rollback, and what it saves. filesystems
- Oct 2, 2023 Write Ordering and the Crash Window Between Metadata Updates Why a filesystem that issues correct writes in the right order can still be corrupt after a power loss, and how ordering constraints, atomicity, and recovery strategies separate. filesystems