Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> I do not believe an unbuffered file uses O_DIRECT.  This is why I use 
> os.open(fpath, os.O_DIRECT).

Problem is you follow it with:

fo = os.fdopen(fd, 'rb+')

which introduces a Python level of buffering around the kernel unbuffered file 
descriptor. You'd need to pass buffering=0 to make os.fdopen avoid returning a 
buffered file object, making it:

fo = os.fdopen(fd, 'rb+', buffering=0)

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