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Comment on Crash Consistency: Rethinking the Fundamental Abstractions of the File System

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"As previously explained, however, in-order updates (i.e., better crash behavior) are not practical in multitasking environments with multiple applications."

They say this is the obstacle to the best approach using the same interface. I say look at our best results in DB, concurrency, and distributed computing research to see if there's a solution that might work given a certain number of cores or applications. There's also the possibility of processor enhancements that put this sort of thing in the I/O architecture.

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