Sorry, you're right. fsync will report failure nowadays so you're not getting silent corruption. A different failure mode: the drive reorders writes and doesn

Sorry, you're right. fsync will report failure nowadays so you're not getting silent corruption. A different failure mode: the drive reorders writes and doesn't respect flush commands. Edit: of course, you can't avoid the problem by changing the way you write the file. Files stored locally are inherently fragile.