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> A good transaction log based system will recover - as the author's should.

Unless the drive lies. Tells filthy dirty ugly lies.

And lots of them do.

OS: "Did you persist that data I flushed?"

Disk controller (hiding single copy in RAM cache behind its back): "Oh absolutely, bro. It's tight. Solid. You got nothing to worr-"BZZZT



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