Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to the sync() system call available in Java? This is the system call that flushes all files. This seems like it might be a good optimization for the time-based log flush. If you are going to sequentially flush all the log partitions anyway it might be better to just do a single sync() and let the I/O scheduler have more leeway in the ordering of he writes. I know who to get the equivalent of fsync() or fdatasync() using FileChannel.force(...) to flush a single file but I don't know how to get the equivalent of sync().
-Jay
