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by dfryer 2389 days ago
"Crash-consistent applications", not "Crashing applications". This is a great paper which illustrates how a developer's mental model of what a file system does may differ from the reality.
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The submitted title was "File Systems Are Not Created Equal: Complexity of Crafting Crashing Applications [pdf]", which was a valiant attempt at squeezing the whole thing into 80 chars, but I don't think that's doable.