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If you look at PostgreSQL configuration settings, you'll notice a chunk of them are dedicated to dealing with fsync. They even have a dedicated testing tool to test how the database behaves with different modes of syncing.

fsync is a serious performance problem, especially in distributed storage systems. If you can get it under your control, you can definitely benefit from it.




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