On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 03:31:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > Sure, everything can break and most will sometime, but does this > happen often enough that you'd want to slow down all of your network > disk writes by an order of magnitude on the odd chance that some app > really cares about a random write that it didn't bother to fsync? For some applications, yes, that is exactly what I would want to do. It depends upon whether performance is more or less important than reliability.