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by trhway 4082 days ago
>Does it write to a disk or to a log? If it writes to disk, it may still not be completely fail-safe unless it also writes to a log before writing to disk.

why we still discussing it at a tech forum in 21st century in Silicon Value? Shouldn't it (together with isolation, ACID, CAP, etc...) be a base knowledge taught in elementary school? Like you can't expect Daddy to buy you a firetruck that Mommy promised if Mommy hasn't been able to talk to Daddy yet... though until Mommy talks to Daddy you probably can convince Daddy to buy you a railroad...