Maybe cheating is ok. Sure, there is a reason why it's faster. Maybe the guarantee of the write to disk is not as necessary as some people would believe. It's

Maybe cheating is ok. Sure, there is a reason why it's faster. Maybe the guarantee of the write to disk is not as necessary as some people would believe. It's certainly not the same as writing to /dev/null. Maybe the developer can have other ways of guaranteeing consistency.