On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Matthew Dempsky <matt...@dempsky.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So what does it mean for a single byte write to be atomic? > > That some bits in a byte won't be updated without other bits being > updated as well.
Considering how much extra work a filesystem would have to go through to enable that to be untrue, it seems silly to call it out as something special.
