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A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer (2021)

2022162 points76 comments Systems & Performance details

A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will sketch out a proposal for how to build an versatile, general-purpose OS for a computer that doesn't need or use filesystems or files…

PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years (2019) [video]

2022152 points46 commentscited by 4Databases & Data details

About a year ago the PostgreSQL community discovered that fsync (on Linux and some BSD systems) may not work the way we always thought it is, with possibly disastrous consequences for data durability/consistency (which is something the PostgreSQL community really values).