Comment by jtwaleson
2 years ago
That should be irrelevant, because flush is flush right? If your SSD does not write the data after a flush it's violating basic hard drive functionality.
2 years ago
That should be irrelevant, because flush is flush right? If your SSD does not write the data after a flush it's violating basic hard drive functionality.
GP has a point in that a laptop is much less likely to experience unplanned power loss because of the built in battery. However that does not help desktops which also use NVME SSDs.
The other problem is that this doesn't only cause problems resulting from power loss. At least some files systems guarantee consistency of data on the drive by flushing at critical points. ZFS on Linux does this. If the flush doesn't happen as promised, subsequent writes could result in corrupted files should something else like a crash interrupt operation.