Re: [boost] NuDB: A fast key/value insert-only database for SSD drives in C++11

Subject: Re: [boost] NuDB: A fast key/value insert-only database for SSD drives in C++11
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-29 17:18:58

Lee Clagett wrote:

> And the partial write failure test case does not cover what I am talking 
> about. A filesystem is allowed to write the control structures before 
> writing the data, and still meet your constraints for fsync. So the 
> pointer to the sector has been stored but the data at that sector was 
> never written.

In terms of the File concept, this corresponds to File::write writing up to 
n random bytes, then calling abort(), right?