alt Hacker News> Of course! You can't copy the file of a running, active db receiving updates, that can only result in corruption
Do people really not understand how file storage works? I cannot rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas that would produce an attempt to copy a volatile database without synchronization and expect it to work.
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ahazred8ta • 05/01/2025
> I cannot rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas
I see you are a man of culture.
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The confusion of ideas here is understandable IMO: people assume everything is atomic. Databases of course famously have ACID guarantees. But it's easy for people to assume copying is also an atomic operation. Honestly if someone works too much with databases and not enough with filesystems it's a mistake easily made.