Re: Induced crashes

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:32:18PM -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > Disk hardware guarantees that a sector write can always be completed
> > even if the power goes out partway through.  That means that writing a
> > single sector *is* always atomic.
> 
> The size of a single sector does not necessarily equal the size of of
> a disk block.

And, what about reordering of writes in the device driver?

Thanks,
Marcus

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