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These things are like a con-trick on naive developers.

Do they really think that the brains behind the big iron DBs hadn't considered this stuff?

Our transactions don't do _any_ fsyncs, with a small risk of losing 4k of data that's recoverable from application logs in any case. As the post says you still need sort algorithms, pages &c &c.




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