Atomicity of `write(2)` to a local filesystem

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man 2 write on my system sums it up nicely:

Note that not all file systems are POSIX conforming.

Here is a quote from a recent discussion on the ext4 mailing list:

Currently concurrent reads/writes are atomic only wrt individual pages,
however are not on the system call. This may cause read() to return data
mixed from several different writes, which I do not think it is good
approach. We might argue that application doing this is broken, but
actually this is something we can easily do on filesystem level without
significant performance issues, so we can be consistent. Also POSIX
mentions this as well and XFS filesystem already has this feature.

This is a clear indication that ext4 — to name just one modern filesystem — doesn’t conform to POSIX.1-2008 in this respect.

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