* Andrew Morton:

> I don't think it's a bug.  Sure, O_DIRECT is synchronous, but that's
> because it is, err, direct.  Not because it provides extra data-integrity
> guarantees.  If you want those guarantees, use O_SYNC as well.

This needs to be prominently documented.  Right now, it's far from clear
that you need both O_DIRECT and O_SYNC.
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