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Lost write

A lost write is a write reported as completed whose intended update is absent at the required storage location.

An old record can remain internally consistent, including its checksum; physical address agreement alone cannot establish freshness.

Relations

related

misdirected-write, parity-pollution, end-to-end-data-protection

Citations

1. Krioukov et al. Parity Lost and Parity Regained. FAST 2008, sections 3-4. (accessed 2026-10-11)
2. Bairavasundaram et al. An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack. FAST 2008, sections 2-3 and 6. (accessed 2026-10-11)
3. Hesela: checksum, identity and freshness boundaries with executable synthetic examples (accessed 2026-10-11)

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