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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by dom0 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:05AM (#15225846)
Durable has a very specific meaning for I/O and is just not correct here.

POSIX does intentionally not specify any durability at all (e.g. a no-op fsync is explicitly permitted).

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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by dullgiulio on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:32AM (#15225949)
And in practice it is close to that, due to cheating hardware with a cache.
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