SQLITE_IOERR_BEGIN_ATOMIC
SQLiteERRORNotableI/O Errorofficial confidence
I/O error starting atomic write
Production Risk
Medium — transaction will not proceed; switch to WAL mode.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_BEGIN_ATOMIC (7434) is returned when the VFS cannot begin an atomic write operation. Used by VFS implementations that support atomic batch-atomic writes (e.g., F2FS).
Why it happens
- 1Filesystem does not support the atomic write batch operation.
- 2VFS error starting an atomic write sequence.
How to reproduce
Atomic write mode on filesystems with atomic write support (F2FS, NVM).
trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
# Atomic write mode requires special VFS/filesystem support # SQLITE_IOERR_BEGIN_ATOMIC indicates the begin step failed
expected output
sqlite3.DatabaseError: disk I/O error
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