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  • There is a difference between corruption and loss. Corruption may happen on various levels (file system, data base, application) and can only be prevented by measures on each of these levels; for example, these days file systems are typically journaling so that crashes are less likely to corrupt them (i.e., leave them in a faulty and perhaps unusable state). Similar considerations may be apply to the database or application. They may all be able to roll back to a known good state. But that rollback will cause data loss which could not even be prevented by disabling caching altogether. Commented Nov 27, 2024 at 18:20