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Unserializable write

An unserializable write is a storage failure in which recovered contents cannot be reconciled with an operation order allowed by the known write history.

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In the FAST 2013 power-fault study, the relevant history includes synchronous issue and completion ordering. A record can pass its own checksum while the collection violates that history. This storage-recovery usage is not a claim that a database offers serializable transaction isolation. [1]

Relations

related
power-loss-protection, lost-write, torn-write, checksum, crash-consistency

Citations

  1. Zheng et al., FAST 2013, section 3.2: Detecting global failures (accessed 2026-10-13)

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