Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:32:18PM -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > > Disk hardware guarantees that a sector write can always be completed > > > even if the power goes out partway through. That means that writing a > > > single sector *is* always atomic. > > > > The size of a single sector does not necessarily equal the size of of > > a disk block. > > And, what about reordering of writes in the device driver?
Mach device drivers are not allowed to reorder writes.
