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Marko Zec wrote:

> - fsync() no longer flushes the buffers to disk, but returns immediately
> instead;

Any system that does this should be flushed down the toilet.  Softupdates
already breaks transaction semantics of FFS by breaking link()/unlink()/rename()
etc.

Don't make it worse.  Many programs rely on fsync().