>>> That's the whole thing with the difference between so-called "ACID" databases and MySQL. Corrupted data after a power outage just shouldn't happen. It's one of the things database engines are supposed to protect us against.

I knew I was not running MySQL in ACID mode (via innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit=0), and I sacrificed safety by performance. I was OK with that in my specific use-case.