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A method is provided, comprising: receiving, at a first storage array, a first request to perform an atomic write operation at a specified address in a volume; placing a read-write lock on a first instance of the volume, and executing the atomic write operation on the first instance of the volume; transmitting, to a second storage array, a second request to perform the atomic write operation on a second instance of the volume; and detecting whether an error condition is present that is associated with the second request; when the error condition is present, comparing a first data item that is stored at the specified address in the first instance of the volume with a second data item that is stored at the specified address in the second instance of the volume, and, when the first data item matches the second data item, transmitting an acknowledgment.