Quote: GFS supports serial and concurrent writes and record appends; a mutation is replicated and may fail

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The state of a file region after a … [write or record append], whether it succeeds or fails, and whether there are concurrent … A file region is consistent if all clients … [e.g., concurrent writes]. A region is defined after a file data mutation if … [the mutation] in its entirety [e.g., serial writes and concurrent record appends].   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: a file region is consistent if all clients see the same data; it is also defined if clients see the entire mutation

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