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From: "Parity Error" <bootup@mail.ru>
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Subject: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates
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with soft-updates metadata updates are delayed write. I am wondering if, say
there 
are two independent structural changes, one after another, and then a crash
happens. 
Is there a possibility that the latter structural change got written to disk
before the 
former due to some memory replacement policy ?

could this affect the correctness of some applications ?


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