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by tanelpoder 458 days ago
Add sync=1 to your fio O_DIRECT write tests (not fsync, but sync=1) and you’ll see a big difference on consumer SSDs without power loss protection for their controller buffers. It adds the FUA flag (force unit access) to the write requests to ensure persistence of your writes, O_DIRECT alone won’t do that