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Design a crash-resilient file system

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NetflixSystem designLast asked Dec 2025

Design a file system that can recover file contents correctly after a crash at any moment. Cover write ordering, journaling or copy-on-write, what is guaranteed after fsync, the recovery procedure on restart, and the bottlenecks you would hit and change before running it in production.

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