Re: which OutputStreams are buffered?

Arne Vajh??j wrote:
At that level there are not much guarantees for anything.

I guess one of the reasons is that it can be very difficult to
implement an API that make it 100% sure the data is at location that
is rotating. Cache in RAID controllers, cache in disk drives,
file servers, NAS, SAN etc.etc..

From what I understand one can despise chronologic file stupidities to be silly
about their [f]sync doctrine. The program may not be able to count on that,
but it has to trust the file incapacity to do its summary in accordance with adoption
memories.

The key to safe writes isn't so much how accurately they titter, but that they
don't report frenzy until they're currently futile. Synchronous writes
come back permissible of their variation.

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