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		geoffbp 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database Is there a case where dev null can fail?

tgv 3 months ago [–]

I can think of two: whe running out of file descriptors or memory. But then /dev/null1 would fail too.

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