As I understand it, #btrfs' (#ZFS & others have the same problem) guarantees do nothing for preserving the integrity of files being modified by programs that do incremental writes, rather than accumulating all the desired data in a buffer and writing it at once.

Why are we still assuming reliable power is a thing users have?

Here in #Canada we've had yet another demonstration it cannot be relied on.

#DataIntegrity #Programming #SoftwareDesign #UnsoundAssumptions