May I doubt that there are drives that don't 'sync'? That means you have a good chance of corrupted data at a normal 'reboot'; or just at a 'umount' (without considering ZFS here). May I doubt the marketing drab that you need to buy a USCSI or whatnot to have functional 'sync' at a shutdown or umount? There are millions if not billions of drives out there that come up with consistent data structures after a clean shutdown. This means that a proper 'umount' flushes everything on those drives, and we need not expect corrupted data, and no further writes. And that was the topic further up to which I tried to answer. As well as to the notion that a file system that encounters interrupted writes may well and legally be completely unreadable. That is what I refuted, nothing else.
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