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Oz Solomon
Personal blog · notthewizard.comprogrammingsystems
Oz Solomon writes Not The Wizard, a personal blog at notthewizard.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Are Files Appends Really Atomic?”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Oz Solomon's 2014 post testing whether file appends are atomic, a question that comes up in discussions of log-writing. Comments cite it as background for a logging project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Oz Solomon's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Are Files Appends Really Atomic?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-23
What Hacker News says?
> I'm assuming you're talking about https://www.notthewizard.com/2014/06/17/are-files-appends-re... I just glossed over this article and found this gem: > So there you have it, empirical proof that Linux allows atomic appends of 4KB. No, this means that the specific example presented here worked on the specific Linux version the author used, on the specific filesystem, hardware, .... that the author used. As long as…
Comment linking /2014/06/17/are-files-appends-really-atomic/
on “Stuff Your Logs”Submitted Are File Appends Really Atomic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm assuming you're talking about https://www.notthewizard.com/2014/06/17/are-files-appends-re... It seems they have a max size of 512 bytes[0] which they reject[1] if the encoded length exceeds. [0] https://github.com/backtrace-labs/stuffed-record-stream/blob... [1] https://github.com/backtrace-labs/stuffed-record-stream/blob...
Comment linking /2014/06/17/are-files-appends-really-atomic/
on “Stuff Your Logs”Submitted DoorBot – Not Ready for Prime Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Files Appends Really Atomic? as a story · 1 points
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