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by stubish 2608 days ago
It can certainly solve performance problems, in much the same way as turning of fsync. Even a contractor contracted specifically to fix a performance problem shouldn't do this without understanding how this will affect the particular application, or they open themselves to professional malfeasance (if noticed; otherwise they will likely get the contract to fix the data corruption problem since they did such a good job last time...)