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0 pointsrobocat6y ago0 comments

> POSIX, although somewhat dated, has provided a good enough abstraction layer for filesystems and OSs

I know nothing about POSIX, but I presume we all want stronger guarantees to avoid the risk of syncing a corrupted file.

https://danluu.com/file-consistency/

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willtim6y ago

That's really the job of the filesystem to protect against corruption using checksums. ZFS will do this and hopefully more will follow. I suppose a file sync tool could detect a change of contents with no change of mtime, but that would be expensive.

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