lost write
a storage system informs the layer above that a write occurred when it actually has not
lost write in a sentence
“A lost write caused the database to believe a record was saved when the disk had silently dropped it.”
Related Words
torn write
a storage system stores only part of a requested write, leaving data in a partially updated state
memory corruption
data read from memory differs from what was written, caused by cosmic rays or hardware defects
message corruption
an arriving message differs from the sent message due to cable degradation or electromagnetic interference
message delay
the time for a message to travel from sender to recipient; unbounded in asynchronous networks
message duplication
a single message arrives multiple times due to routers, retries, or log replays
message reordering
messages arrive in a different order from their sending due to variable latency in asynchronous networks