On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Stephen Tyler <stephen(at)stephen-tyler(dot)com> wrote:
> The times are apparently in milliseconds. But that doesn't make any sense
> for the 7200rpm SATA HDD, given it has an 8.3ms rotation time. And the
> numbers for the SSD are basically identical to the HDD, apart from the bare
> write timing.
>
> Do I conclude that the sync timings are all faked by the OS?
Actually, it's usually the drives that lie about fsync, especially
consumer grade (and some server grade) SATA / PATA drives are known
for this.